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STUDY OF DISORDERING BY IRRADIATION OF U$sub 2$Mo (in French)

Journal Article · · J. Nuclear Materials
U-Mo alloys having the composition of U/sub 2/Mo. a compound with an ordered tetragonal structure, were irradiated. Two series of irradiation experiments were carried out, one in the EL 2 reactor at temperatures between 20 and 65 deg C and the other in the "Melusine" reactor at the liquid nitrogen temperature. Crystallographic analysis of the samples at various stages of irradiation showed that the transformation from the gamma ' phase tetragonal structure to the gamma phase cubic structure was a continuous function of the burn-up. It was also shown that collisions were mainly responsible for disordering this alloy and that there were about 300 000 collisions per fission. (auth)
Research Organization:
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
NSA Number:
NSA-15-024064
OSTI ID:
4043739
Report Number(s):
ACE-tr-5325
Journal Information:
J. Nuclear Materials, Journal Name: J. Nuclear Materials Vol. Vol: 3
Country of Publication:
Country unknown/Code not available
Language:
French