The characteristics and behavior of depleted uranium tetrafluoride obtained by different methods in the process of solid-phase conversion into uranium oxides using mechano-activated crystalline and x-ray amorphous silica in oxygen-containing and inert media in the absence of mixing of the components are compared. It is found that the reactivity of depleted uranium tetrafluoride obtained by the reduction of depleted uranium hexafluoride by unsaturated organic halogen derivatives and hydrogen in a fluorohydrogen flame is actually no different, and the solid-phase reaction products UO2 and U3O8 inherit the morphological features of the initial uranium tetrafluoride.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 118, No. 3, pp. 154–159, March, 2015.
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Zhukov, A.V., Chizhevskaya, S.V., Magomedbekov, E.P. et al. Solid-Phase Interaction of Depleted Uranium Tetrafluoride with Different History of Production with Silica. At Energy 118, 196–202 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-015-9978-5
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