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Uranium Oxide Mass Loss Rate in Water for an Interface Under Alpha-Irradiation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011
Abstract
This work uses an external alpha beam to irradiate an uranium oxide/water interface and investigates the release of uranium in aerated deionized water under alpha irradiation. A high energy alpha beam delivered by a cyclotron (CERI-CNRS) goes through the oxide and emerges in the water with a 20 MeV energy. First results are reported here showing that the uranium mass loss rate increases by three orders of magnitude in aerated deionized water under high flux (≥3.3×1010 α.cm−2s−1).
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