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New coolants, new fuels: A new generation of university reactors
Here’s an easy way to make aging U.S. power reactors look relatively youthful: Compare them (average age: 43) with the nation’s university research reactors. The 25 operating today have been licensed for an average of about 58 years.
Hirotaka Furuya, Masumichi Koizumi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 28 | Number 2 | February 1976 | Pages 226-234
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A31563
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The surface diffusion of plutonium on uranium dioxide was measured in the temperature range from 1400 to 1830°C using a tracer method. A (U,Pu)O2 point source was placed and heated on the polished surface of a UO2 diffusion pellet. In the low-temperature range from 1400 to 1670°C, the product of the surface diffusion coefficient and high diffusivity surface layer, Ds · δ, was expressed by the equation As the temperature of diffusion anneal increases, the transport of some tracer atoms from the point source to the pellet surface appeared. In the temperature range from 1640 to 1830°C, the product, Ds · δ, was expressed by the equation