Structure and properties of amorphous uranium dioxide
- Submitting institution
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Bangor University / Prifysgol Bangor
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- UoA12_41
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.actamat.2020.10.069
- Title of journal
- Acta Materialia
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- First page
- 366-375
- Volume
- 202
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 1359-6454
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is a game changer in the field as it explains how off-stoichiometry is accommodated at amorphous grain boundaries in polycrystalline urania fuel. This publication, and the experimental work that resulted from the investigation, highlighted a range of new mechanistic behaviour relevant to industrial production and operation of fuels led to a National Nuclear User Facility proposal (EP/V035223/1) submitted to improve the mechanistic understanding of fuel manufacture (£850k). A PhD devoted to fuel modelling has been funded due to this (£110k from Westinghouse) and funding to understand related corrosion effects in fast-reactors is funded through BEIS sponsored NNL’s AFCP (£150k).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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