Phase Development and Sintering Studies on an Immobilized Pu Ceramic Form
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The Department of Energy (DOE) plans to immobilize at least some of the excess weapons useable plutonium in a ceramic form for final geologic disposal. The proposed immobilization form is a titanate based ceramic consisting primarily of a pyrochlore phase with lesser amounts of brannerite, rutile, perovskite, zirconolite and/or glassy phases. The ceramic formulation is cold-pressed and then densified via a reactive sintering process. The sintering process results in approximately 20 percent shr…
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Date:
October 7, 1999
Creator:
Marra, J. C.
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