background: decrease of economically accessible uranium resources motivates consideration of breeding of fertile elements such as thorium. material and method: thorium oxide fuel burn up calculation of a simulated research reactor cooled heavy water has been proposed in the present work using mcnpx 2.6 code. two 233u and 235u isotopes have been used as fissile element of thorium oxide fuel. 135...

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a greenhouse gas produced during microbial transformation of soil N that has been implicated in global climate warming. Nitrous oxide efflux from N fertilized soils has been modeled using NO3 K content with a limited success, but predicting N2O production in non-fertilized soils has proven to be much more complex. The present study investigates the contribution of soil am...

Drops of molten silicon surrounded by a SiO2–BaO–CaO flux were undercooled at 350 K below their melting temperature. This undercooling is 75 K greater than the largest one reported so far for bulk silicon. To account for this result as well as the nucleation data from laser-melted thin films, classical nucleation theory requires a crystal-melt interfacial tension with a positive temperature coe...

Li₂SO₄ or (Li₂SO₄ + SiO₂)-mixture fluxes were used to prepare a Lu₂O₃:Eu powder phosphor as well as an undoped Lu₂O₃ utilizing commercial lutetia and europia as starting reagents. SEM images showed that the fabricated powders were non-agglomerated and the particles sizes varied from single microns to tens of micrometers depending largely on the flux composition rather than the oxide(s)-to-flux ...

It is a well-known fact that smoking is associated with a reduction in exhaled nitric oxide (NO) levels. There is, however, limited knowledge relating to the smoking-induced changes in production or exchange of NO in different compartments of the airways. This study comprised 221 adult subjects from the European Community Respiratory Health Survey II, who were investigated in terms of their exh...

In this work, the process of oxide removal from InSb (001) surface was studied in-situ by high-energy electron diffraction in vacuum and under an antimony flux. The dependence thickness on annealing temperature obtained. It has been found that flux slows down due to formation reaction. described a system kinetic equations, activation energy decomposition determined.