Carbon potential measurements on some actinide carbides

Ananthasivan, K and Rao, Vasudeva PR and Mathews, CK and Jacob, KT and Chandramouli, V and Kaliappan, I and Anthonysamy, S (1994) Carbon potential measurements on some actinide carbides. In: UNSPECIFIED, 1994, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.

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Abstract

Uranium-Plutonium mixed carbide with a Pu/(U+Pu) ratio of 0.55 is to be used as the fuel in the Fast Breeder Test Reaotor - (PBTRj at Kalpakkam, India. carbur ization of the stainlese steel clad by this fuel is determined by its carbon potential. - i. Because the carbon potential of this fuel composition is not 1 available in the literature, it was meadured by the methanehydrogen gas equilibration technique. The sample was equilibrated with purified hydrogen and the equilibrium methane-tohydrogen ratio in the gas phase was measured with a flame ionization detector. The carbon potential of the ThC-ThCz as well as Mo-Mo2C system,whiah is an important binary in the aotinide-fission product-carbon systems, were also measured by this technique, in the temperature range 973 K to 1173 K. The data for ! the Mo-MozC system are in agreement with values reported in the literature. The results for the ThC-ThC2 system are different from estimated values with large unaertainty limits given in the literature. The data on (U,Pu) mixed carbide indicates possibility of stainlesss steel clad attack under isothermal equilibrium conditions.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy)
Date Deposited:	01 Mar 2012 06:34
Last Modified:	01 Mar 2012 06:34
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/42685

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