Arthur V. Phelps [and] Sanborn C. Brown. / "January 3, 1952." / Bibliography: p. 8. / Army Signal Corps Contract No. DA36-039 sc-100 Project No. 8-102B-0. Dept. of the Army Project No. 3-99-10-022.

Manfred A. Biondi [and] Sanborn C. Brown. / "February 7, 1949." Note on Report No. 96 laid in. / Bibliography: p. 12. / Army Signal Corps Contract No. W36-039-sc-32037. Project No. 102B. Dept. of the Army Project No. 3-99-10-022.

by Laszlo Tisza. / "May 1, 1947." / Bibliography: p. 35. / Army Signal Corps Contract No. W-36-039 sc-32037

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology and woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1982. / Bibliography: p. 265-290.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, 1982. / Supervised by William J. Jenkins. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 265-290).

When nuclear fuel, fabricated for the purpose of transmuting spent fuel is irradiated, significant amounts of He is produced from alpha particles mainly emitted when 242Cm decays into 238Pu. From irradiation experiments it is known that the presence of He in the solids alters the swelling behaviour of the material. The thesis presents the theoretical background from which nucleation models of He bubbles can be formulated. Such models are presented for He in metals, and the case of He in Mo is studied as an example. MgO, which together with Mo is suggested as a matrix material in transmutation fuel is also studied and the stability of He containing bubbles in this material is discussed. By calculating parameters for a rate theory model derived from atomistic modelling, it is shown that He can stabilise vacancy clusters and cause cluster growth at temperatures and irradiation doses where nucleation and growth would not otherwise occur. At the initial stages of nucleation He can stabilise small bubbles while larger bubbles are unstable. This results in an incubation time of swelling, which implies that He does not always cause increased swelling, but can at certain irradiation conditions slow down the growth of large vacancy clusters and thereby delay swell\-ing beyond the time of the irradiation. When comparing the behaviour of bubble nucleation in Mo and MgO, it is found that He has a significant impact even at very low concentrations in Mo. In contrast, the concentration of He has to be considerably higher in MgO to affect the swelling behaviour. For an inert matrix fuel, designed for transmutation purposes, this implies that the Mo matrix will have a tendency to swell considerably at rather high temperatures due to He stabilised vacancy clusters. If operated at lower temperatures, the swelling could instead be reduced due to the incubation time. In a MgO matrix, the swelling behaviour will instead depend largely on the production rate of He. For a low production rate, the material will have a swelling behaviour similar to the one seen when He is not present in the material. A high production rate implies that He will remain in vacancy clusters, thereby stabilising the clusters and enhancing the growth and swelling.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2004. / Advisor: Dr. Steven W. Van Sciver, Florida State University, College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 16, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

This dissertation describes the first high-precision observation of the infrared spectrum of the helium hydride molecular ion HeH⁺. The frequencies of five vibrational-rotational transitions in the range 1700-1900 cm⁻¹ in the X¹Σ⁺ ground electronic state of ⁴HeH⁺ have been measured to ±0.002 cm⁻¹ (±1 ppm). The Doppler tuned ion beam laser spectroscopic method was used in making the measurements: In a region of constant electrostatic potential, an HeH⁺ ion beam of several keV energy is intercepted at a small angle by a beam from a carbon monoxide infrared gas laser. The energy of the ion beam is adjusted to Doppler-shift an ion transition into resonance with a nearby laser line. On resonance the laser light stimulates transitions to take place. If the resonating states differ in population, the laser-induced transitions produce a net population transfer. The occurrence of population transfer is detected by monitoring the transmission of the ion beam through a gas target downstream from the laser beam interaction region. The transmission through the target is dependent upon the ion beam vibrational-state population distribution and therefore is sensitive to changes in the population distribution, because the cross-section for charge-exchange neutralization of an incident ion is dependent upon the vibrational state of the ion. The current interest in molecular ions in general, and in HeH⁺ in particular, is explained. The existing theory of the structure of HeH⁺ is summarized and a comprehensive listing of theoretical treatments of the structure of HeH⁺ is given. The meager previous experimental work on HeH⁺ is reviewed. The principles of the Doppler tuned ion beam laser resonance method are discussed and the experimental apparatus used is described in detail. The acquisition and analysis of the data is described and the results are compared with the best existing theoretical predictions of the transition frequencies. The present experimental values (given by D. E. Tolliver, G. A. Kyrala, and W. H. Wing, Phys. Rev. Lett. 43, 1719) for the measured transitions are (with the corresponding values calculated by D. L. Bishop and L. M. Cheung, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 75, 462, given in parentheses): (v,J)=(1,11)↔(0,12), 1855.905 cm⁻¹ (1856.152 cm⁻¹); (1,12)↔(0,13), 1751.971 cm⁻¹ (1752.198 cm⁻¹); (2,8)↔(1,9), 1896.992 cm⁻¹ (1897.139 cm⁻¹); (2,9)↔(1,10), 1802.349 cm⁻¹ (1802.492 cm⁻¹); and (2,10)↔(1,11), 1705.543 cm⁻¹ (1705.684 cm⁻¹). It is seen that the present experimental values deviate from the theory by typically 0.2 cm⁻¹, and are two orders of magnitude more precise than the theoretical values.

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