It is shown that the technological scheme for fabricating uranium dioxide pellets is suitable for fabricating uranium-molybdenum pellets. It permits using the standard powder metallurgy methods to fabricate pellets from uranium-molybdenum powder obtained by thermocentrifugal atomization of ingots of uranium-molybdenum alloy. The proposed technology uses standard equipment operating in easily reproducible regimes.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 127, No. 5, pp. 293–295, November, 2019.
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Lysikov, A.V., Mikheev, E.N., Karpyuk, L.A. et al. Evaluation of the Possibility of Fabricating Uranium-Molybdenum Fuel for VVER by Powder Metallurgy Methods. At Energy 127, 324–327 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-020-00630-6
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