Joseph Somers

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Structure of yttria stabilized zirconia beads produced by gel supported precipitation
    Journal of Materials Science, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 4650–4658, 2007
  2. Structural investigation on an aged americium transmutation fuel
    Journal of Nuclear Materials, vol. 362, no. 2-3, pp. 343–349, 2007
  3. Granulation and infiltration processes for the fabrication of minor actinide fuels, targets and conditioning matrices
    Journal of Nuclear Materials, vol. 362, no. 2-3, pp. 350–355, 2007
  4. Thermophysical characterization of nitrides inert matrices: Preliminary results on zirconium nitride
    Journal of Nuclear Materials, vol. 371, no. 1-3, pp. 129–133, 2007
  5. Inert matrix kernels for actinide incineration in high temperature reactors
    Progress in Nuclear Energy, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 259–267, 2006
  6. Properties of cermet fuels for minor actinides transmutation in ADS
    Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 47, no. 17, pp. 2724–2731, 2006
  7. A Knudsen cell-mass spectrometer facility to investigate oxidation and vaporisation processes in nuclear fuel
    Journal of Nuclear Materials, vol. 344, no. 1-3, pp. 246–253, 2005
  8. Fabrication Routes for Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Suitable for the Production of Minor Actinide Transmutation Targets
    Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 827–832, 2005
  9. Journal of Materials Science Letters, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 119–121, 2003
  10. Journal of Materials Science, vol. 38, no. 11, pp. 2331–2335, 2003
  11. Design and fabrication of specific ceramic?metallic fuels and targets
    Journal of Nuclear Materials, vol. 319, pp. 44–50, 2003
  12. Zirconate pyrochlore as a transmutation target: thermal behaviour and radiation resistance against fission fragment impact
    Journal of Nuclear Materials, vol. 319, pp. 59–64, 2003
  13. Post irradiation examination of irradiated americium oxide and uranium dioxide in magnesium aluminate spinel
    Journal of Nuclear Materials, vol. 319, pp. 108–117, 2003
  14. Aspects of fabrication of curium-based fuels and targets
    Journal of Nuclear Materials, vol. 320, no. 1-2, pp. 36–43, 2003
  15. Large area quantitative X-ray mapping of (U,Pu)O2 nuclear fuel pellets using wavelength dispersive electron probe microanalysis*1
    Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 651–658, 2003
  16. The thermal conductivity of Nd2Zr2O7 pyrochlore and the thermal behaviour of pyrochlore-based inert matrix fuel
    Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol. 352, no. 1-2, pp. 1–5, 2003
  17. Fabrication of zirconia-based targets for transmutation
    Progress in Nuclear Energy, vol. 38, no. 3-4, pp. 255–258, 2001
  18. The EFTTRA-T4 experiment on americium transmutation
    Journal of Nuclear Materials, vol. 282, no. 2-3, pp. 159–170, 2000
  19. Fabrication of transmutation and incineration targets by infiltration of porous pellets by radioactive solutions
    Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol. 271-273, no. 1-2, pp. 616–619, 1998
  20. Infiltration of highly radioactive materials: a novel approach to the fabrication of targets for the transmutation and incineration of actinides
    Journal of Nuclear Materials, vol. 249, no. 2-3, pp. 121–127, 1997
  21. Interaction between different sized particles during acoustic agglomeration of oil droplets
    Journal of Aerosol Science, vol. 27, pp. S413–S414, 1996
  22. 25.P.02 Scaling of the acoustic agglomeration rate as a function of the wave energy
    Journal of Aerosol Science, vol. 25, pp. 353–354, 1994
  23. 25.P.03 Agglomeration of a titanium dioxide aerosol in a high intensity sound field
    Journal of Aerosol Science, vol. 25, pp. 355–356, 1994
  24. Frequency dependence of the acoustic agglomeration rate of a glycolfog
    Journal of Aerosol Science, vol. 22, pp. S27–S30, 1991
  25. Acoustic agglomeration of liquid and solid aerosols: a comparison of a glycol fog and titanium dioxide
    Journal of Aerosol Science, vol. 22, pp. S109–S112, 1991