January 2023

Nuclear Weapons 807 - Reseachers At The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Are Studying Phases Of Uranium Oxide

     Tyler Spano is a nuclear security scientist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). She and her colleagues carried out an examination of previously understudied phases of uranium oxide. (Different crystalline structures are considered phases.) The phases they studied are beta (β-), delta (δ-), epsilon UO3 (ε-UO3) and beta U3O8 (β-U3O8).

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