Evaluation of low-temperature fluoride routes to synthesize actinide nitrides and oxide solid solutions
Journal: Digital Scholarship - UNLV (University of Nevada Reno)
Year: 2020

"Actinide mononitrides have been considered as a possible nuclear fuel for the Generation-IV nuclear reactor systems. In the process of evaluating these actinide mononitrides as nuclear fuel, it is important to study different chemical and physical characteristics of these compounds. Synthesis of the materials is thus important. Carbothermic reduction is one of the techniques that have been used to synthesize actinide mononitrides. In this method, a mixture of actinide oxide such as UO 2 and exc