Impact of alpha-damage and helium production on the heat capacity of actinide oxides

The heat capacity of alpha-damaged uranium, plutonium, and americium mixed dioxide (Uu, Puv, Amw)O2±x samples was measured during thermal annealing. The excess of heat released was assessed and the recovery stages associated with various defects described by integrating results from transmission ele...

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Main Authors: Thierry Wiss, Rudy J. M. Konings, Dragos Staicu, Alessandro Benedetti, Jean-Yves Colle, Vincenzo V. Rondinella, Emilio Maugeri, Zeynep Talip, Arne Janssen, Oliver Dieste, Luana Cognini, Emanuele De Bona, Gianguido Baldinozzi, Christine Guéneau
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Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-02-01
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnuen.2025.1495360/full
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Rudy J. M. Konings
Dragos Staicu
Alessandro Benedetti
Jean-Yves Colle
Vincenzo V. Rondinella
Emilio Maugeri
Zeynep Talip
Arne Janssen
Oliver Dieste
Luana Cognini
Emanuele De Bona
Gianguido Baldinozzi
Christine Guéneau
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Arne Janssen
Oliver Dieste
Luana Cognini
Emanuele De Bona
Gianguido Baldinozzi
Christine Guéneau
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description The heat capacity of alpha-damaged uranium, plutonium, and americium mixed dioxide (Uu, Puv, Amw)O2±x samples was measured during thermal annealing. The excess of heat released was assessed and the recovery stages associated with various defects described by integrating results from transmission electron microscopy, helium desorption spectroscopy, thermal diffusivity, and XRD annealing studies. It is shown that different defect-annealing stages could be singled out. It could also be evidenced that the excess of energy stored in defects tends to saturate after rather low damage levels, but that, with increasing radiogenic helium production, another contribution of stored energy appears which can be attributed to the formation of He-defect complexes that cannot be annihilated until higher temperatures are reached.
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spelling doaj-art-d674066ba2d04ababf95050de35e6a772025-08-20T02:45:03ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering2813-34122025-02-01410.3389/fnuen.2025.14953601495360Impact of alpha-damage and helium production on the heat capacity of actinide oxidesThierry Wiss0Rudy J. M. Konings1Dragos Staicu2Alessandro Benedetti3Jean-Yves Colle4Vincenzo V. Rondinella5Emilio Maugeri6Zeynep Talip7Arne Janssen8Oliver Dieste9Luana Cognini10Emanuele De Bona11Gianguido Baldinozzi12Christine Guéneau13European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe, GermanyEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe, GermanyEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe, GermanyEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe, GermanyEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe, GermanyEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe, GermanyEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe, GermanyEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe, GermanyEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe, GermanyEuropean Commission, DG Energy, Luxembourg, LuxembourgEuropean Commission, DG Energy, Luxembourg, LuxembourgDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, ItalyCentraleSupélec, CNRS, SPMS, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, FranceCEA, Service de Recherche en Corrosion et Comportement des Matériaux, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, FranceThe heat capacity of alpha-damaged uranium, plutonium, and americium mixed dioxide (Uu, Puv, Amw)O2±x samples was measured during thermal annealing. The excess of heat released was assessed and the recovery stages associated with various defects described by integrating results from transmission electron microscopy, helium desorption spectroscopy, thermal diffusivity, and XRD annealing studies. It is shown that different defect-annealing stages could be singled out. It could also be evidenced that the excess of energy stored in defects tends to saturate after rather low damage levels, but that, with increasing radiogenic helium production, another contribution of stored energy appears which can be attributed to the formation of He-defect complexes that cannot be annihilated until higher temperatures are reached.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnuen.2025.1495360/fullheat capacityalpha-damageactinide dioxidestored energydefectshelium
spellingShingle Thierry Wiss
Rudy J. M. Konings
Dragos Staicu
Alessandro Benedetti
Jean-Yves Colle
Vincenzo V. Rondinella
Emilio Maugeri
Zeynep Talip
Arne Janssen
Oliver Dieste
Luana Cognini
Emanuele De Bona
Gianguido Baldinozzi
Christine Guéneau
Impact of alpha-damage and helium production on the heat capacity of actinide oxides
Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering
heat capacity
alpha-damage
actinide dioxide
stored energy
defects
helium
title Impact of alpha-damage and helium production on the heat capacity of actinide oxides
title_full Impact of alpha-damage and helium production on the heat capacity of actinide oxides
title_fullStr Impact of alpha-damage and helium production on the heat capacity of actinide oxides
title_full_unstemmed Impact of alpha-damage and helium production on the heat capacity of actinide oxides
title_short Impact of alpha-damage and helium production on the heat capacity of actinide oxides
title_sort impact of alpha damage and helium production on the heat capacity of actinide oxides
topic heat capacity
alpha-damage
actinide dioxide
stored energy
defects
helium
url https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnuen.2025.1495360/full
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