High Temperature Thermodynamic Studies on the Transuranium Oxides and Their Solid Solutions - Softcover

Gotcu-Freis, Petronela

9781607507796: High Temperature Thermodynamic Studies on the Transuranium Oxides and Their Solid Solutions

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ISBN 10: 160750779X ISBN 13: 9781607507796

Verlag: Ios Pr Inc, 2011

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Gotcu-Freis presents her PhD thesis for the Institute for Transuranium Elements of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Germany, and the department of radiation, radionuclides, and reactors at Delft U. of Technology, the Netherlands. It details the high temperature thermodynamic studies of the transuranium oxides and their solid solutions as required for analyzing and predicting the behavior of the fuel in a nuclear reactor during normal operation and accidental conditions, with each chapter describing a systematic study on actinide oxides. They outline the important thermophysical properties of neptunium dioxide, the vapor pressure, and heat capacity; the results of a study on the vaporization behavior and phase relations in the plutonium oxide system; the vapor pressure of pure americium oxide samples; the variation of the total pressure of plutonium and americium bearing species over the solid solutions; and mass spectrometric investigations of candidate fuels and targets for transmutation of minor actinides. Chapters have been published in scientific journals. No index is provided. Annotation �2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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A growing demand for energy supply worldwide, coupled with the necessity to reduce emission of greenhouse gases, has led to a renewed interest in nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil fuels for electricity production in the last years. One of the main drawbacks to the development of nuclear energy as a power source has traditionally been the problem of waste disposal. Thermal reactors have a limited capability to burn the minor actinides (such as Np, Am and Cm) which are formed by neutron capture under irradiation and represent the main source of today's nuclear waste problem. Two waste management options are currently available: spent fuel is either conditioned for final storage or it is recycled to extract reusable materials like uranium and plutonium before the remaining materials are vitrified for storage. This book explores a third option: the partitioning of minor actinides from the spent fuel, followed by their transmutation to produce short-lived fission products. Such technologies exploit the waste in a practical and valuable way. The book presents the high-temperature thermodynamic studies of the transuranium oxides and their solid solutions, obtained from the vapor pressure measurements at high temperatures on actinide oxide samples using a Knudsen cell coupled with a mass spectrometer. The experimental work was complemented by thermodynamic evaluations and modelling. Each chapter is dedicated to a systematic study on actinide oxide and constitutes a paper which has been already published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

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