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University of New Mexico
Characterizations of plutonium nitrate solutions for criticality calculations
Abstract
dc:description.abstractIn the modeling of plutonium nitrate systems for criticality calculations, the chemical formula is usually assumed to be Pu(N03)4 (where plutonium is in the +4 valence state). However in a unique situation of chemistry, plutonium has four oxidation states (III), (IV), (V), and (VI) that can exist in finite concentrations, simultaneously in aqueous solutions, in equilibrium with each other.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Nuclear Engineering
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Nuclear Engineering
- Year
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Miller, John Anthony
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Busch, Robert D.
- Mead, Richard W.
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Rights
- Language dc:language
- English
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ne_etds/49
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalrepository.unm.edu:ne_etds-1048