Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the
2000 International RERTR Meeting

DEVELOPVENT OF THE METHOD OF HIGH DENSITY
FUEL COMMINUTION BY HYDRIDE-DEHYDRIDE PROCESSING

M.I. Solonin, А.V. Vatulin^*, Y.А. Stetsky, Y.I. Trifonov, B.D. Rogozkin

State Scientific Center of Russian Federation,
A.A. Bochvar All-Russia Scientific and Research Institute of Inorganic Materials
123060 Moscow, VNIINM, P.O. Box 369

ABSTRACT

The report contains the brief review of the existing methods for high density uranium alloys powder production. The results of researchers on comminution of U-Mo alloys by hydride-dehydride processing are presented. As a result of work it is shown that this method is suitable for comminution of U-Mo alloys. It provides the production of fuel grains of needed size, structure and phase composition with high efficiency. The investigations of interaction between U-Mo fuel grains and matrix material are being carried out now. The preliminary results has shown that compatibility of U-Mo powder manufactured by hydride-dehydride processing

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