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Understanding Actinides through the Role of 5f Electrons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

T. Gouder ,
F. Wastin ,
J. Rebizant  and
G.H. Lander
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Studies of the actinide elements and compounds were (and are) motivated by the need to characterize their structural and thermodynamic properties for the development of nuclear fuels and the treatment of waste, whether it be for long-term storage or ideas involving transmutation in high-powered accelerators. For the most part, tables giving these data exist, although the data for transuranium compounds are rather sparse. A much more difficult task is to understand the data and develop theories that have predictive power in this part of the periodic table. In doing this, however, we are confronted with the extremely complicated electronic structure of the 5f shell and the great paucity of high-quality data on materials containing transuranium isotopes.

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MRS Bulletin , Volume 26 , Issue 9: Challenges in Plutonium and Actinide Materials Science , September 2001 , pp. 684 - 688
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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