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JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS
卷 415, 期 1, 页码 67-73出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2011.05.043
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- Diamond University Consortium [EP/F055412/1]
- Royal Academy of Engineering
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)
- EPSRC (through the Nuclear FiRST Doctoral Training Centre)
- EPSRC [EP/D032210/1, EP/F033605/1, EP/F055412/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F055412/1, EP/D032210/1, EP/F033605/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Understanding the effect of radiation damage and noble gas accommodation in potential ceramic hosts for plutonium disposition is necessary to evaluate their long-term behaviour during geological disposal. Polycrystalline samples of Nd-doped zirconolite and Nd-doped perovskite were irradiated ex situ with 2 MeV Kr+ at a dose of 5 x 10(15) ions cm(-2) to simulate recoil of Pu nuclei during alpha decay. The feasibility of thin section preparation of both pristine and irradiated samples by Focused Ion Beam sectioning was demonstrated. After irradiation, the Nd-doped zirconolite revealed a well defined amorphous region separated from the pristine material by a thin (40-60 nm) damaged interface. The zirconolite lattice was lost in the damaged interface, but the fluorite sublattice was retained. The Nd-doped perovskite contained a defined irradiated layer composed of an amorphous region surrounded by damaged but still crystalline layers. The structural evolution of the damaged regions is consistent with a change from orthorhombic to cubic symmetry. In addition in Nd-doped perovskite, the amorphisation dose depended on crystallographic orientation and possibly sample configuration (thin section or bulk). Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy revealed Ti remained in the 4+ oxidation state but there was a change in Ti coordination in both Nd-doped perovskite and Nd-doped zirconolite associated with the crystalline to amorphous transition. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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