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Los Alamos Science No. 26, 2000
Challenges in Plutonium Science
| Plutonium is arguably the strangest element in the periodic table and the most difficult to handle in the laboratory. While its nuclear fission properties were correctly predicted well before it was first produced at the Berkeley cyclotron, its chemical and condensed matter properties still defy understanding, largely due to the anomalous behavior of the 5f electrons. Nevertheless, it plays a prominent role in nuclear weapons and nuclear energy production. Former Director Sig Hecker opens the volume with the history of plutonium on planet Earth, its use in nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, the challenge of safeguarding weapons-grade plutonium, and efforts to mitigate health and environmental problems resulting from production during the Cold War. The volume goes on to summarize plutonium's condensed matter properties and evidence for its classification as a correlated-electron material. Other topics cover the role of the 5f electrons in producing plutonium's many phases, plutonium aging, plutonium metallurgy, plutonium chemistry, environmentally-conscious plutonium processing, and long-term deposition of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. |
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Covers, Editorial Note, and Table of Contents
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An Update: Plutonium and Quantum Criticality
George Chapline, James L. Smith
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In the Beginning
Siegfried S. Hecker
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729 kB |
A Factor of Millions-Why We Made Plutonium
Siegfried S. Hecker, André F. Michaudon, Ileana G. Buican
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1750 kB |
Plutonium in Use-From Single Atoms to Multiton Amounts
Siegfried S. Hecker
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1261 kB |
Plutonium-An Element at Odds with Itself
Siegfried S. Hecker
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881 kB |
The Plutonium Challenge-Stockpile Stewardship
Siegfried S. Hecker
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706 kB |
The Plutonium Challenge-Avoiding Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
Siegfried S. Hecker
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896 kB |
The Plutonium Challenge-Environmental Issues
Siegfried S. Hecker
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1316 kB |
The Taming of "49"-Big Science in Little Time
Edward F. Hammel
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605 kB |
Reflections on the Legacy of a Legend-Glenn T. Seaborg
David L. Clark, David E. Hobart
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562 kB |
From Alchemy to Atoms-The Making of Plutonium
André F. Michaudon
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1041 kB |
Plutonium and Health-How Great Is the Risk?
George L. Voelz
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910 kB |
Plutonium Condensed-Matter Physics-A Survey of Theory and Experiment
A. Michael Boring, James L. Smith
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992 kB |
Actinide Ground-State Properties-Theoretical Predictions
John M. Wills, Olle Eriksson
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871 kB |
Basics of the Density Functional Theory Approach
John M. Wills, Olle Eriksson
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36 kB |
Electronic Structure of Alpha and Delta Plutonium-Theory vs Experiment
Aloysius J. Arko, John J. Joyce, John M. Wills
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58 kB |
A Possible Model for Delta Plutonium-Self-Induced Anderson Localization, Delta-Phase Stability, and the Melting Temperature of Plutonium
Bernard R. Cooper
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376 kB |
Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Alpha and Delta Plutonium
Aloysius J. Arko, John J. Joyce, Luis A. Morales, Jeffrey H. Terry, Roland K. Schulze
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725 kB |
Laser-Plasma Light Source-Design and Operation
John J. Joyce, Aloysius J. Arko Luis A. Morales
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175 kB |
Actinide Photoemission Measurements at the Advanced Light Source
Roland K. Schulze, Jeffrey H. Terry
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282 kB |
Atomic Vibrations and Melting in Plutonium
Andrew C. Lawson, Barbara Martinez, Joyce A. Roberts, James W. Richardson, Jr., Bard I. Bennett
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729 kB |
Equations of State-Theoretical Formalism
Bard I. Bennett
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19 kB |
Microstrain in Delta Prime Plutonium
Andrew C. Lawson
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32 kB |
Vibrational Softening in Alpha Uranium
Michael E. Manley
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208 kB |
Elasticity, Entropy, and the Phase Stability of Plutonium
Albert Migliori, Joseph P. Baiardo, Timothy W. Darling
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835 kB |
Preparing Single Crystals of Gallium-Stabilized Plutonium
Jason C. Lashley, Michael S. Blau, Roger L. Moment
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626 kB |
A Single-Crystal Saga
Roger L. Moment
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511 kB |
Aging of Plutonium and Its Alloys
Siegfried S. Hecker, Joseph C. Martz
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251 kB |
A Tale of Two Diagrams
Siegfried S. Hecker, Lidia F. Timofeeva
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350 kB |
Surface and Corrosion Chemistry of Plutonium
John M. Haschke, Thomas H. Allen, Luis A. Morales
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772 kB |
Catalyzed Corrosion of Plutonium: Hazards and Applications
John M. Hschke, Joseph C. Martz
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241 kB |
Radiation Effects in Plutonium-What Is Known? Where Should We Go from Here?
Wilhelm G. Wolfer
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569 kB |
Transmission Electron Microscopy of Plutonium Alloys
Thomas G. Zocco
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587 kB |
Plutonium and Its Alloys-From Atoms to Microstructure
Siegfried S. Hecker
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2222 kB |
Mechanical Behavior of Plutonium and Its Alloy
Siegfried S. Hecker, Michael F. Stevens
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1031 kB |
Where Is the Gallium?-Searching the Plutonium Lattice with XAFS
Steven D. Conradson
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632 kB |
The Chemical Complexities of Plutonium
David L. Clark
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1190 kB |
Computational Studies of Actinide Chemistry
P. Jeffrey Hay, Richard L. Martin
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413 kB |
The Chemical Interactions of Actinides in the Environment
Wolfgang H. Runde
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1329 kB |
Spectroscopies for Environmental Studies of Actinide Species
Wolfgang H. Runde
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233 kB |
Siderophore-Mediated Chemistry and Microbial Uptake of Plutonium
Mary P. Neu
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81 kB |
Characterizing the Plutonium Aquo Ions by XAFS Spectroscopy
Steven D. Conradson, David L. Clark, Mary P. Neu, Wolfgang H. Runde, C. Drew Tait
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161 kB |
XAFS—A Technique to Probe Local Structure
Steven D. Conradson
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724 kB |
A Vision for Environmentally Conscious Plutonium Processing
Larry R. Avens, P. Gary Eller
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2150 kB |
Salt Distillation
Eduardo Garcia, Vonda R. Dole, James A. McNeese, Walter J. Griego
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68 kB |
Hydrothermal Processing
Laura A. Worl, Steven J. Buelow, Dennis D. Padilla
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58 kB |
Enhanced Pyrolysis for Converting Polystyrene or Cellulose Polymers
Daniel J. Kathios
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57 kB |
Treatment of Liquid Wastes
Gordon D. Jarvinen, Geraldine M. Purdy, Barbara F. Smith, Thomas C. Robinson
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Electrochemical Decontamination of Metallic Waste
Douglas E. Wedman, Jerry L. Lugo
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139 kB |
Molecularly Engineered Resins for Plutonium Recovery
S. Frredric Marsh, D. Kirk Veirs, Gordon D. Jarvinen, Mary E. Barr, Eddie W. Moody
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660 kB |
Yucca Mountain-Looking Ten Thousand Years into the Future
Roger C. Eckhardt, David L. Bish, Gilles Y. Bussod, June T. Fabryka-Martin, Schön Levy, Paul W. Reimus, Bruce A. Robinson, Wolfgang H. Runde, Inéz Triay, David T. Vaniman
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Mesh Generation for Yucca Mountain
Carl W. Gable
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188 kB |
Colloids-Carriers of Actinides into the Environment
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24 kB |
Analyzing Volcanic Hazards at Yucca Mountain
Frank V. Perry, Bruce M. Crowe, Greg A. Valentine
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140 kB |
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