The body-centred-cubic to face-centred-cubic phase transformation in thorium and some thorium-rich alloys

Thermodynamic assessments of the Al–Th and Th–Zn systems

“…Fig. 3 shows the calculated phase diagram in the Al-Th system compared with the experimental data [14,15,18,19], and all the invariant reactions in the Al-Th system are listed in Table 4, where good agreement between calculated results and experimental data is obtained. The deviation between the calculated liquidus and the Ref.…”

“…3. The calculated phase diagram of the Al-Th system with the experimental data [14,15,[18][19][20]. estimated values by Kassner et al [20] is smaller than 4 at.% Al.…”

“…The phase diagram in the Al-Th system has been investigated by many researchers [14][15][16][17][18][19]. Murray [17] studied the phase diagram in the Al-Th system by thermal analysis, X-ray diffraction and metallographic methods, and found that the Th 2 Al, Th 3 Al 2 and ThAl 2 compounds are directly formed from the liquid phase, while the ThAl, Th 2 Al 3 and ThAl 3 compounds are formed by the peritectic reactions (Th 2 Al 3 + L M ThAl, L + ThAl 2 M Th 2 Al 3 or L + ThAl 2 M ThAl 3 ).…”

Thermodynamic modeling of the Th–U, Th–Zr and Th–U–Zr systems

“…The phase diagram in the Th-U system was investigated by many researchers [11][12][13][14][15][16][17], and then reviewed by Perterson [18]. No intermetallic compound was found in this system, and the solubilities of U in the ␣Th and ␤Th phases are significant, whereas the solubilities of Th in the ␣U, ␤U and ␥U phases are extremely low.…”

Evaluation of Thorium Fuels for the Heavy Water Organic Cooled Reactor.

“…In essence, this method imposes a coolant temperature rise hot channel factor of 1.16 on the channel enclosed by the two highest-power cylinders. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8] shows that the minimum burnout ratio is about 2.5. Other significant parameters are included in Two difficulties are immediately encountered:…”