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Spent fuel recycling and conditioning topic of U.S.-Japan meeting
Officials with the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management discussed spent nuclear fuel recycling and conditioning with counterparts from Japan during the 13th U.S.-Japan Technical Meeting of the Civil Nuclear Energy Research and Development Working Group, held recently in Santa Fe, N.M.
Qi Liang Lu, Li Qun Shi, and Jian Guo Wan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 65 | Number 3 | May 2014 | Pages 347-354
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-648
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The structure and properties of CaF2-type δ structure of helium-containing zirconium hydrides were investigated using density functional theory. The properties of this material vary with hydrogen and helium concentrations. Hydrogen has a significant effect on the behavior of helium. The occupied sites of He atoms strongly depend on the hydrogen concentration. The structures and formation mechanisms of helium clusters vary with hydrogen concentration at a high helium content. The embedding energies of He atoms mainly result from interactions between helium and zirconium atoms. However, H-He interactions significantly contribute to the embedding energies. Variations in lattice volume expansion and bulk modulus were also investigated.