The Effects of Self-Irradiation on the Laitice of 238(80%)Puo2

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Abstract
As a function of self-irradiation, the crystalline lattice of 238(80%) PuO2 is gradually altered. The technique of x-ray line broadening was used to search for changes in the crystallite size and strain in the lattice following an initial annealing treatment. She integral breadth, Fourier coefficient, and variance methods were used to analyze the broadening of the x-ray powder pattern lines. The mechanism of alteration appears to be one of retained strain as no evidence was forthcoming from these techniques to indicate that the material undergoes significant crystallite size change. The strain in the lattice increased from zero at time zero to approximately 0.2% during a 2-year period.

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