Radiolysis alpha

D. 2001. Alpha-radiolysis effects on U02 alteration in water. Journal of Nuclear Materials, 288, 11-19. 

Sunder, S., Shoesmith, D. W. Miller, N. H. 1997. Oxidation and dissolution of nuclear fuel (UO2) by the products of the alpha radiolysis of water. Journal of Nuclear Materials, 244, 66-74. 

Complementary laboratory experimental investigations of nPr-BTP hydrolytic stability revealed that /9,m values decreased by 80% after two days of contact of the nPr-BTP solvent with a 1 M nitric acid solution, but by 50% after only two hours, due to the artificial addition of nitrous acid (potentially formed by the alpha radiolysis of nitric acid during a hot test) at 0.02 M to the 1 M nitric acid solution (206, 207). 

Bibler, N.E. 1972. Gamma and alpha radiolysis of aqueous solutions of diethylene tri-aminepentaacetic acid, J. Inorg. Nucl. Chem. 34 1417-1425. 

In addition to collection of comprehensive distribution data, Schulz s investigations embraced ways of purifying commercial-grade DHDECMP, alpha radiolysis of DHDECMP-CCI4 solvents, and mixer-settler flowsheet tests with both synthetic and actual CAW solutions. Collectively, results of this research clearly demonstrated the many advantages of substituting DHDECMP for DBBP. Shutdown of PRF Am(III) extraction operation in 1976 prevented follow-on plant tests of the DHDECMP flowsheet. 

Figure 14 Schematic of the thin-layer electrochemical cell used to measure the influence of alpha radiolysis of water on the corrosion of nuclear fuel (U02).

N.E. Bibler and E.G. Orebaugh, Radiolytic gas production from tritiated waste forms—gamma and alpha radiolysis studies, Report No. DP-1459 (Savannah River Laboratory, 1977). 

Molecular and Radical Product Yields in Alpha-Radiolysis of 0.8N H2S04... 

Both the chemical composition and structural configurations of the polymeric support play an important role in cation permeability (48). Pu(IV) was deliberately chosen for our study since its alpha radiolysis might cause appreciable structural damage to the polymeric support. Descriptions of some of the hydrophobic supports that we have evaluated and their physical characteristics of porosity, pore size, thickness, and critical surface tension are listed in Table 6. 

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