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SIMULATING THE BEHAVIOUR OF FISSION PRODUCTS IN UO2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

Robin W. Grimes*
Affiliation:
Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London, WIX 4BS, U.K
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Abstract

Fission products in nuclear fuels exhibit a significant variation in solubility and stability. To understand better the reasons for this variation, the Mott-Littleton simulation technique has been used to calculate solution energies of the fission products Br, Kr, Rb, Sr, Y, Zr, Te, I, Xe, Cs, Ba, La and Ce. Nonstoichiometry and variable charge state are important components of the model.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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