Method of making alloys of beryllium with plutonium and the like

Patent · Tue Feb 24 04:00:00 EST 1959

OSTI ID:4212404

Runnals, O J.C.

The production or alloys of beryllium with one or more of the metals uranium, plutonium, actinium, americium, curium, thorium, and cerium is described. A halide salt or the metal to be alloyed with the beryllium is heated at l3O0 deg C in the presence of beryllium to reduce the halide to metal and cause the latter to alloy directly with the beryllium. Although the heavy metal halides are more stable, thermodynamically, than the beryllium halides, the reducing reaction proceeds to completion if the beryllium halide product is continuously removed by vacuum distillation.

• Research Organization: Originating Research Org. not identified
• NSA Number: NSA-13-022503
• Assignee: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
• Patent Number(s): 2,875,041
• OSTI ID: 4212404
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

ACTINIDES
ACTINIUM COMPOUNDS
AMERICIUM ALLOYS
AMERICIUM COMPOUNDS
BERYLLIUM
BERYLLIUM ALLOYS
BERYLLIUM COMPOUNDS
CERIUM ALLOYS
CURIUM ALLOYS
CURIUM COMPOUNDS
DISTILLATION
HALIDES
HEATING
HIGH TEMPERATURE
METALLURGY AND CERAMICS
PLUTONIUM ALLOYS
PREPARATION
REDUCTION
SALTS
THORIUM ALLOYS
URANIUM ALLOYS
VACUUM