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US 3,940,312 AGranted
Nuclear fuel and process of preparation thereof
AssigneeStudiecentrum voor Kernenergie, S.C.K.
InventorWalter Jan Van Lierde
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Abstract
Vanadium carbide is present in the particles as supersaturated solid solution and the particles are coated with a thin porous layer of vanadium carbide.
Claims3
A nuclear fuel comprising monocrystalline particles with a maximum size lying between 20 .mu. and 400 .mu., of carbide of uranium or uranium-plutonium with vanadium carbide in supersaturated solution, and coated with a layer of vanadium carbide with a maximum thickness of 10 .mu..
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.