Research Article

An Estimation of the Thermal Properties of Pu-Rich Metallic Fuel

Figure 5

Comparison between the obtained thermal conductivity-temperature correlations (broken line) (present work) for the U-Pu-Zr alloy and data from (a) ANL-7230 (U-16.2Pu-6.2Zr, U-14.7Pu-9.7Zr, and U-18.4Pu-11.5Zr alloys (in wt%) and (b) ANL-7155 (U-15Pu-10Zr, U-18.4Pu-14.1Zr, and U-17.1Pu-3.4Zr [wt%] alloys (in wt%) [27, 28] (each point).
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