The intricate balance between reactor economics and safety necessitates the emergence of
new and advanced nuclear systems and, very importantly, advanced materials, which can …

The challenges and opportunities to alloyed and composite fuel architectures designed and
intended to mitigate oxidation of the fuel during a cladding breech of a water-cooled reactor …

Building on the successful experience in operating the DarkSide-50 detector, the DarkSide
Collaboration is going to construct DarkSide-20k, a direct WIMP search detector using a two …

For a long time, a top priority in the nuclear industry was the safe, reliable, and economic
operation of light water reactors. However, the development of accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) …

Dense uranium mononitride (UN) pellets with controlled microstructures and tailored grain
size from large-grained to a few microns are synthesized by spark plasma sintering (SPS) …

Dense U 3 Si 2 pellets with controlled grain structure and enhanced thermal-mechanical
and oxidation properties are synthesized with spark plasma sintering (SPS). Microstructure …

The oxidation behaviour of the composite UN-AlN, UN-Cr 2 N/CrN and UN-AlN-Cr 2 N/CrN
pellets in air and anoxic steam under thermal transient conditions was investigated and …

Uranium nitride (UN)-uranium dioxide (UO 2) composite fuels are being considered as an
accident tolerant fuel (ATF) option for light water reactors. However, the complexity related to …

This work reports the synthesis and characterization of the U 3 Si 2 and UO 2 composites
sintered by spark plasma sintering (SPS) with controlled microstructures for accident-tolerant …

Composite fuels such as UN-UO 2 are being considered to address the lower oxidation
resistance of the UN fuel from a safety perspective for use in light water reactors, whilst …