The role of sodium fluoride, added to quartz before the latter is mechanically activated, in the solid-phase conversion of depleted uranium tetrafluoride into uranium oxides without mixing of the components of the mixture is determined.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 122, No. 5, pp. 282–287, May, 2017.
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Polenov, G.D., Chizhevskaya, S.V., Zhukov, A.V. et al. Solid-Phase Conversion of Depleted Uranium Tetrafluoride into Oxides Using Mechanoactivated Quartz with the Addition of Sodium Fluoride. At Energy 122, 346–352 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-017-0277-1
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