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JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS
Volume 384, Issue 2, Pages 153-157Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2008.11.010
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- Department of Energy [DE-FC07-06-ID14731]
- Global Nuclear Energy Partnership and the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative DOE/NE [DE-FC07-05-ID14654]
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This study focused on reducing overall processing time and temperature for fully stabilized zirconia, an inert matrix material candidate, to minimize the loss of actinides (that will be incorporated into the matrix material), while maintaining at least 90% theoretical density (TD). The effects of different processing routes on bulk density and microstructure were evaluated. The results obtained by adopting microwave sintering for 8 mol% Y2O3-ZrO2 were compared to conventional sintering. A 20 min soak time at 1300 degrees C resulted in pellets with 90% TD for microwave-processed samples, compared to 77% TD for pellets processed conventionally. A similar density was obtained at lower temperature (1200 degrees C) by increasing the soak time to 100 min in microwave processing. This time and temperature resulted in 60% TD conventionally processed pellets. Compressive strength values obtained for a 1300 degrees C (20 min soak time) microwave-processed sample were higher (1600 MPa) as compared to a conventionally processed sample (1300 MPa). (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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