Thermochemistry of rare earth doped uranium oxides LnxU1-xO2-0.5x+y (Ln = La, Y, Nd)

JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS

卷:465

Article

Navrotsky, Alexandra¹ 

[1] Univ Calif Davis, Peter A Rock Thermochem Lab, Davis, CA 95616 USA

关键词: Thermochemistry;    Doped uranium oxide;    Formation enthalpy;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jnucmat.2015.06.059

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Lanthanum, yttrium, and neodymium doped uranium dioxide samples in the fluorite structure have been synthesized, characterized in terms of metal ratio and oxygen content, and their enthalpies of formation measured by high temperature oxide melt solution calorimetry. For oxides doped with 10-50 mol % rare earth (Ln) cations, the formation enthalpies from constituent oxides (LnO(1.5), UO2 and UO3 in a reaction not involving oxidation or reduction) become increasingly exothermic with increasing rare earth content, while showing no significant dependence on the varying uranium oxidation state. The oxidation enthalpy of Ln(x)U(1-x)O(2-0.5x+y) is similar to that of UO2 to UO3 for all three rare earth doped systems. Though this may suggest that the oxidized uranium in these systems is energetically similar to that in the hexavalent state, thermochemical data alone can not constrain whether the uranium is present as U5+, U6+, or a mixture of oxidation states. The formation enthalpies from elements calculated from the calorimetric data are generally consistent with those from free energy measurements. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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