Patent ID: 9180500
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: B21B,C22F

Abstract:
1. A method for forming a cold-rollable sheet of a uranium molybdenum alloy comprising: (a) heating between about 790° C. to about 860° C. a starting billet of the uranium molybdenum alloy to form a heated starting billet; (b) reducing the thickness of the heated starting billet using at least one light rolling pass wherein the thickness of the heated starting billet is reduced by about one to two percent with each light rolling pass to form a thinned billet; and (c) reducing the thickness of the thinned billet to form a medial plate of the uranium molybdenum alloy using at least one medium rolling pass to reduce the thickness of the thinned billet between about eight percent to about twelve percent with each medium rolling pass; wherein the medial plate of the uranium molybdenum alloy is the cold-rollable sheet of the uranium molybdenum alloy.