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Journal Article
Entrapment Behavior of Solid Surrogate Fission Products at Engineered UN Nano‐Hetero‐Interfaces Within Metallic Nuclear Fuels
2025
Overview
Nanometric hetero‐interfaces provide a wealth of scientific and engineering opportunities due to their complex and often misunderstood properties that can differ from their respective bulk constituents. In this work, the ability for engineered nanostructures within a bulk U─Mo alloy to arrest simulant fission products is investigated experimentally and computationally. Nanostructured 90 wt% U/ 10 wt% Mo (U‐10Mo) with 7.1 at% Nd is consolidated using spark‐plasma‐ sintering (SPS) techniques and is heat‐treated at 500 °C under vacuum for 24, 100, 500, and 1000 h. Analysis on the sintered and heat‐treated U‐10Mo reveals rapid kinetics in Nd diffusion to nanocluster sites, with evidence of Nd diffusion occurring during sintering and during the following heat‐treatment. The segregation behavior of Nd at two different U─Mo/UN interfaces is computationally verified using density functional theory (DFT) to reinforce experimental data. This work endeavors to engineer uranium mononitride (UN) nanostructures within a metallic nuclear fuel (U─Mo), in order to trap potential fission products (Nd). From consolidation of the nanostructured U─Mo powders all the way to 1000 h at reactor‐like temperatures (500 °C), Nd preferentially migrates to nanostructure boundaries (hetero‐interfaces). This technology can help prevent fuel‐cladding chemical interactions while not reducing fuel smear density within nuclear reactor cores.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc,Wiley-VCH
