Thermodynamic assessment of the oxygen rich U-Ce-O system

JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS

卷:467

Article

McMurray, J. W.¹  Hirooka, S.²  Murakami, T.²  Suzuki, K.²  White, J. T.³  Voit, S. L.³  Nelson, A. T.³  Slone, B. W.¹  Besmann, T. M.⁴  McClellan, K. J.³  Kato, M.² 

[1] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Div Mat Sci & Technol, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA

[2] Japan Atom Energy Agcy, Fuel Technol Dept, Plutonium Fuel Dev Ctr, Nucl Fuel Cycle Engn Labs, Tokai, Ibaraki 3191194, Japan

[3] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA

[4] Univ S Carolina, Coll Engn & Comp, Dept Mech Engn, Columbia, SC 29208 USA

关键词: UO2 +/- x;    Uranium;    Cerium;    Oxygen;    Compound energy formalism;    Calphad;    Oxygen potential;    Phase equilibria;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jnucmat.2015.10.008

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

A thermodynamic assessment of the U-Ce-O system was performed by combining the existing Calphad assessments of the U-O and Ce-O binaries. A compound energy formalism representation for the fluorite U1-yCeyO2 +/- x and a partially ionic two-sublattice liquid model for U-Ce-O melt were developed to describe the ternary solutions. Oxygen potentials for U1-yCeyO2 +/- x for 0.05, 0.20, 0.30, and 0.50 Ce metal fractions were measured from thermogravimetric analysis and used, along with other thermodynamic data reported in the literature, to optimize the adjustable parameters of the models for U1-yCeyO2 +/- x and the U-Ce-O ternary liquid. In addition, the thermochemical behavior of U1-yCeyO2 +/- x and U1-yPuyO2 +/- x was compared in order to assess the suitability of using Ce as a surrogate for Pu in MOX fuel. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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