The reaction product of hydrogen and electro-refined plutonium observed by in situ electron microscopy
Source abstract
Abstract
Abstract Electro-refined plutonium was reacted with hydrogen within the preparation chamber of a Field Emission Gun Scanning Electron Microscope and in situ images were obtained. The plutonium hydride reaction product was observed to have precipitated at the oxide metal interface as angular particulates ( ca 2 μm in length) and was also present within micro cracks intersecting the surface.
Source: openaire · Quality: candidate unverified · Source record ↗
Research context
OpenAlex topics: Nuclear Materials and Properties · Nuclear Physics and Applications · Fusion materials and technologies
SciVX discovery tags are terminology-based. OpenAlex topics are source-provided classifications.
References (14)
Show source-provided references
1. Handling, storage, and disposition of plutonium and uranium
2. Health effects of energy production and conversion10.1146/annurev.eg.01.110176.003053 ↗
3. Cancer mortality and morbidity among workers at the Sellafield plant of british nuclear fuels10.1038/bjc.1994.479 ↗
4. The preparation and properties of some plutonium compounds, Part I. Plutonium hydride10.1039/jr9550003932 ↗
5. XPS-AES characterization of plutonium oxides and oxide carbide. The existence of plutonium monoxide10.1021/ic50221a001 ↗
6. A model for the initiation of reaction sites during the uranium–hydrogen reaction assuming enhanced hydrogen transport through thin areas of surface oxide10.1080/14786435.2013.852286 ↗
7. Plutonium
8. Temperature and time-dependence of the elastic moduli of Pu and Pu-Ga alloys10.1016/j.jallcom.2006.11.157 ↗
9. Mechanical behavior of plutonium and its alloys
10. Metal hydrides
11. The plutonium/hydrogen reaction: the pressure dependence of reaction initiation time10.1016/j.jnucmat.2008.09.046 ↗
12. The plutonium/hydrogen reaction: the pressure dependence of reaction initiation time and nucleation rate controlled by a plutonium dioxide over-layer10.1016/j.jnucmat.2011.01.123 ↗
13. The plutonium–hydrogen reaction: SEM characterization of product morphology10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.03.058 ↗
14. Phase transformation10.1016/0022-3115(66)90003-1 ↗