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Thermal and Thermophysical Properties of the Radioactive Graphite–Inert Gas System in Heating. Computer Experiment

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Consideration has been given to the capabilities of the TERRA software system for modeling thermodynamically the heating of a radioactive graphite–inert gas system in a nuclear reactor. As a result of such modeling, the authors have determined processes occurring in the reactor with the involvement of Eu, Pu, and U actinoids during the heating of the radioactive graphite–argon system at pressures of 105 and 106 Pa, and also equilibrium constants of chemical reactions and the influence of pressure on them. The thermophysical properties of the system have been studied, and the influence of pressure on its specific volume, the heat capacity, and the molar mass of a gas phase and the weight fraction of a condensed phase has been established.

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  1. Ural Institute of the State Fire Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, 22 Mir Str., Ekaterinburg, 620062, Russia

    N. M. Barbin, T. S. Kolbin, D. I. Terent’ev, S. G. Alekseev & I. A. Kaibichev

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 91, No. 4, pp. 1139–1149, July–August, 2018.

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Barbin, N.M., Kolbin, T.S., Terent’ev, D.I. et al. Thermal and Thermophysical Properties of the Radioactive Graphite–Inert Gas System in Heating. Computer Experiment. J Eng Phys Thermophy 91, 1079–1089 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-018-1834-8

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