SAXS study of the formation and structure of polynuclear thorium(IV) colloids and thorium dioxide nanoparticles [PDF]
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 2022 Stable actinide colloids and nanoparticles are of interest because of their potential to affect the transportation of radionuclides in the near-field of a nuclear waste repository.
Baihui Zhai +4 more
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Machine learning molecular dynamics simulations toward exploration of high-temperature properties of nuclear fuel materials: case study of thorium dioxide [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Predicting materials properties of nuclear fuel compounds is a challenging task in materials science. Their thermodynamical behaviors around and above the operational temperature are essential for the design of nuclear reactors.
Keita Kobayashi +5 more
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Thermal transport in thorium dioxide
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2018 In this research paper, the thermal transport in thorium dioxide is investigated by using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics. The thermal conductivity of bulk thorium dioxide was measured to be 20.8 W/m-K, confirming reported values, and the phonon mean ...
Jungkyu Park +2 more
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Investigating the potential advantages of using thorium-based fuel as an advanced nuclear fuel in a typical boiling water reactor assembly (BWR) [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe long-term sustainability of Boiling water reactor (BWR) fuel cycles is challenged by the accumulation of reactor-grade plutonium (rgPu), minor actinides (MAs), and high-level radiotoxic waste in spent fuel.
Nassar Alnassar, A. Abdelghafar Galahom
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Simultaneously Recovery of Thorium and Tungsten through Hybrid Electrolysis–Nanofiltration Processes [PDF]
ToxicsThe recovery and recycling of metals that generate toxic ions in the environment is of particular importance, especially when these are tungsten and, in particular, thorium.
Geani Teodor Man +7 more
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Synthesis of Uranium-Thorium dioxide nano powder using supercritical hydrothermal method [PDF]
مجله علوم و فنون هستهای, 2021 Due to the limited uranium reserves and advantages of thorium fuels over uranium fuels, the development of the thorium fuel cycle in various countries including Iran, has been considered significantly.
A. H. Chenari, S.J. Ahmadi, F. Zahakifar
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Valence electronic state density in thorium dioxide [PDF]
Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection, 2008 This work analyses the fine low energy (0-40 eV) X-ray photoelectron spectra of ThO2, taking into account relativistic Xα-discrete variation electronic structure calculations for the ThO8 (D4h) cluster reflecting thorium's close environment in ThO2. As a
Teterin Anton Yu. +6 more
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Quantifying biological carbon pump pathways with a data-constrained mechanistic model ensemble approach [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2022 The ability to constrain the mechanisms that transport organic carbon into the deep ocean is complicated by the multiple physical, chemical, and ecological processes that intersect to create, transform, and transport particles in the ocean. In this paper
M. R. Stukel +3 more
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APL Materials, 2020 Thermal transport is a key performance metric for thorium dioxide in many applications where defect-generating radiation fields are present. An understanding of the effect of nanoscale lattice defects on thermal transport in this material is currently ...
Cody A. Dennett +14 more
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Brazilian Journal of Radiation Sciences, 2020 On this paper it is presented the main physics features of the thorium as a nuclear material and a security analysis due to insertion of ThO2 in a PWR nuclear reactor fuel by the determination and assessment of the sensitivity coeficients through the ...
Clóves Júnior da Fonseca +4 more
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