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JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS
Volume 426, Issue 1-3, Pages 268-276Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2012.03.049
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- Advanced Fuels Campaign of the Fuel Cycle R&D program in the Office of Nuclear Energy, US Department of Energy
- Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy
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The current generation of fully ceramic microencapsulated fuels, consisting of Tristructural Isotropic fuel particles embedded in a silicon carbide matrix, is fabricated by hot pressing. Matrix powder feedstock is comprised of alumina-yttria additives thoroughly mixed with silicon carbide nanopowder using polyethyleneimine as a dispersing agent. Fuel compacts are fabricated by hot pressing the powder-fuel particle mixture at a temperature of 1800-1900 degrees C using compaction pressures of 10-20 MPa. Detailed microstructural characterization of the final fuel compacts shows that oxide additives are limited in extent and are distributed uniformly at silicon carbide grain boundaries, at triple joints between silicon carbide grains, and at the fuel particle-matrix interface. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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