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Jeff Place on INPO’s strategy for industry growth
As executive vice president for industry strategy at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, Jeff Place leads INPO’s industry-facing work, engaging directly with chief nuclear officers.
Jerry F. Kerrisk, David G. Clifton
Nuclear Technology | Volume 16 | Number 3 | December 1972 | Pages 531-535
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UO2 enthalpy data measured by five different investigators were fitted to a theoretically based equation from room temperature to the melting point. The equation can be used to calculate enthalpy, and differentiated to obtain heat capacity in this temperature range. Two of the constants in the equation are related to properties of the UO2 lattice.