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NNadir

(33,532 posts)
Fri May 19, 2023, 07:16 PM May 2023

The Plutonium Carbon Phase Diagram.

After all these years, I realized I didn't have this one in my collection, but it popped up in my Google Scholar Alert for "Liquid Plutonium."



It actually comes from a Ph.D. thesis published some 13 years ago, this one: High temperature phase transitions in nuclear fuels of the fourth generation.

It probably came up in my Google Scholar Alert because of the publication of this book:

Nuclear Fuel Cycle

This phase diagram is so interesting that I immediately sent it to my son; it suggests some very cool peritectic reactions. It's not really what I expected, and I'm surprised I never looked for it.

It strikes me as the sort of thing that could save a world.

The only plutonium carbon phase diagram I have in my files up to now, is the ternary system, Pu/Tc/C that I came across while searching for the binary Tc Pu system, which I never found, actually.

This is the ternary Tc C Pu Phase Diagram:

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