The solidus and liquidus temperatures of UO2 Gd2O3 and UO2 Er2O3 fuels
Kang, K. W.[Ki Won], Yang, J. H.[Jae Ho], Kim, J. H.[Jong Hun], Rhee, Y. W.[Young Woo], Kim, D. J.[Dong Joo], Kim, K. S.[Keon Sik], Song, K. W.[Kun Woo]
The melting temperatures of UO2 (4, 6, 8, 12) wt% Gd2O3, UO2 (2, 4, 8) wt% Er2O3 and UO2 fuels were measured. The fuels were prepared by sintering the green pellets of powder mixtures. Fuel fragments were loaded into a tungsten capsule filled with helium, and then they were melted by an induction heating. The melting temperature was measured by the thermal arrest method during a heating of the capsule. The solidus and liquidus temperatures of UO2 Gd2O3 and UO2 Er2O3 were also determined. The solidus temperatures of UO2 Gd2O3 and UO2 Er2O3 were almost 150 280 and 180 270 .C lower than their liquidus temperatures, respectively.
Compounds
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Formula
Name
1
O2U
uranium dioxide
2
Gd2O3
gadolinium sesquioxide
3
Er2O3
erbium oxide
Datasets
The table above is generated from the ThermoML associated json file (link above).
POMD and RXND refer to PureOrMixture and Reaction Datasets. The compound numbers are included in properties, variables, and phases, if specificied;
the numbers refer to the table of compounds on the left.