@article{95739d85447b46b488fe6925ad28a1f3,
title = "Atomistic Level Study of Ce3Si2 Oxidation as an Accident Tolerant Nuclear Fuel Surrogate",
abstract = "The oxidation mechanisms of Ce3Si2 (as a surrogate for U3Si2 accident tolerant nuclear fuel) has been studied to 750C in flowing air. Discrepancies between the terminal and theoretical mass gains for complete oxidation, similar to previous works on the U3Si2 system are attributed to incomplete oxidation of Si, which forms amorphous SiO2 and regions of nano-crystalline free Si. Nano-grained (< 5 nm) CeO2 also formed after oxidation leading to pulverisaiton, the resulting composition and nano-structure may have highly deleterious consequences for the fuel material under oxidative atompsheres, increasing the rate of oxidation, spallation and fission product release. ",
keywords = "Accident tolerant, Intermetallic, Nuclear fission, Nuclear fuel, Oxidation, Silicide",
author = "Robert Harrison and Worth, {R N} and James Buckley and Timothy Abram",
note = "Funding Information: The authors are thankful to the EPSRC (EP/S011935/1 ATLANTIC) and the UK Government Nuclear Innovation Programme on Advanced Fuels for financial support of this project. The authors also acknowledge the use of the School of Materials X-ray Diffraction Suite at the University of Manchester and are grateful for the technical support, advice and assistance from Dr John E. Warren. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the use of the University of Manchester{\textquoteright}s Electron Microscopy Centre (EMC) and Dr G. Greaves at the Microscopes and Ion Accelerators for Materials Investigations (MIAMI) for access to the EFTEM capability at the University of Huddersfield. Funding Information: The authors are thankful to the EPSRC (EP/S011935/1 ATLANTIC) and the UK Government Nuclear Innovation Programme on Advanced Fuels for financial support of this project. The authors also acknowledge the use of the School of Materials X-ray Diffraction Suite at the University of Manchester and are grateful for the technical support, advice and assistance from Dr John E. Warren. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the use of the University of Manchester's Electron Microscopy Centre (EMC) and Dr G. Greaves at the Microscopes and Ion Accelerators for Materials Investigations (MIAMI) for access to the EFTEM capability at the University of Huddersfield. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 The Authors Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2020",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.corsci.2019.108332",
language = "English",
volume = "164",
journal = "Corrosion Science",
issn = "0010-938X",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
}