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Article Dans Une Revue Radiochimica Acta Année : 2017

Novel approaches for the in situ study of the sintering of nuclear oxide fuel materials and their surrogates

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Sintering is one of the key-point of the processing of ceramic materials. It is then of primary interest for the nuclear fuel cycle, in which it constitutes an important step in the fabrication of either UO2 or (U,Pu)O2 pellets used in current PWR reactors. The sintering of actinides oxides not only drives the final density and microstructure of the fuels, but also several characteristics that can impact significantly their behavior in the reactor. Dedicated tools are then needed to monitor the microstructure of such materials and forecast their evolution. In this frame, this paper presents the new potentialities offered by the use of environmental scanning electron microscope at high temperature (HT-ESEM) for the study of nuclear ceramics sintering. First, the results obtained from bulk pellets are detailed, either regarding original fundamental data at the grain level (such as grain boundaries and pores motion), or design of dedicated microstructures through the assessment of grain growth kinetics. Acquisition of sintering maps thanks to the combination of HT-ESEM observations and classical dilatometric measurements are also addressed. In a second part, observations undertaken at the 2-grain scale to monitor the first stage of sintering, dedicated to neck elaboration, are presented, and compared to the results currently provided by numerical models.

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hal-01998480 , version 1 (23-09-2024)

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Nicolas Clavier, Galy Ingrid Nkou Bouala, Jacques Léchelle, Julien Martinez, Nicolas Dacheux, et al.. Novel approaches for the in situ study of the sintering of nuclear oxide fuel materials and their surrogates. Radiochimica Acta, 2017, 105 (11), pp.879-892. ⟨10.1515/ract-2016-2659⟩. ⟨hal-01998480⟩
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