A Critical Review of Uranium Research at DREV for the Period 1963-73,

Abstract

Summarizing a decade of internal and sponsored uranium research at DREV, this paper covers more than 25 reports on in-house and research investigations made under contracts and university grants. The paper, which gives a broad overview of Canadian achievements in this area, is divided into five parts. The first is concerned with alloy developments, i.e. the heat-treatment responses of more than 100 binary, ternary and quaternary uranium alloys, whereas the second and the third cover more extensive investigations of the two most promising alloys, the quaternary U-1Mo-1Zr-1Nb and the binary U-2Mo. Various other aspects of uranium metallurgy, such as powder metallurgy, grain growth, pyrophoricity and directional casting, are briefly described in the fourth section. A list of the most important results obtained during the course of these investigations is presented in the final section.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA015476

Entities

People

  • J. P. Drolet

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alloys
  • Castings
  • Chemical Compounds
  • Chemistry
  • Contracts
  • Directional
  • Grain Growth
  • Heat Treatment
  • Metallurgy
  • Powder Metallurgy
  • Structural Components
  • Universities
  • Uranium
  • Uranium Alloys

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Metallurgy
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation and International Security
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.