Ab Initio Density Functional Theory Calculation: Americium Hydrolysis Mechanism by Na Shan, Tao Gao

“…This study provides the necessary theoretical data support for the theoretical and experimental study of the actinide system.…”
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Optimal condition for the production of heavy and superheavy neutron-rich isotopes with multinucleon transfer reaction by Xiao Jun Bao

“…One founds that the combinations of actinide projectiles or larger neutron excess radioactive projectiles and 208Pb or 198Pt targets at energies near the Coulomb barrier can be considered for future experiments on the production of heavy neutron-rich nuclei.…”
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Understanding STM images and EELS spectra of oxides with strongly correlated electrons: a comparison of nickel and uranium oxides by Dudarev, S, Castell, M, Botton, G, Savrasov, S, Muggelberg, C, Briggs, G, Sutton, A, Goddard, D

“…We show that a combination of electron energy loss spectroscopy, atomic-resolution tunnelling imaging and first-principles ab initio calculations provides a powerful tool for studying electronic and structural properties of surfaces of transition metal and actinide oxides.…”

Dynamical matrix diagonalization for the calculation of dispersive excitations. by Rotter, M, Le, MD, Boothroyd, A, Blanco, J

“…These are taken from recent work on rare earth, actinide and transition metal compounds and demonstrate the application of the formalism developed.…”

Low temperature properties of transuranic and other heavy metals: a study of the electrical resistivity and thermoelectric power of thorium, uranium, neptunium and plutonium by Meaden, G

“…<p>The electrical resistivity and thermoelectric power of four members of the actinide aeries of elements have been measured below room temperature. …”

Bypassing the computational bottleneck of quantum-embedding theories for strong electron correlations with machine learning by John Rogers, Tsung-Han Lee, Sahar Pakdel, Wenhu Xu, Vladimir Dobrosavljević, Yong-Xin Yao, Ove Christiansen, Nicola Lanatà

“…We perform benchmark calculations of a series of actinide systems, where our method accurately describes the correlation effects, reducing by orders of magnitude the computational cost. …”
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Characteristics of the fission fragments in the three-body model of binary fission by Denisov Vitali Yu.

“…The evaluated nuclide yields, fragment mass and charge distributions, and averaged total kinetic energy of fission fragments for the neutroninduced fission of 30 actinide nuclei are well described in the new model, which considers the fissioning scission system consisting of two heavy fragments and an α-particle between them. …”
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Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of Innovative Fuel Configurations for the Sodium Fast Reactor by Memmott, Matthew J., Hejzlar, Pavel, Buongiorno, Jacopo

“…The success of these programs, in particular the GNEP, is dependent upon the ability of the SFR to manage actinide inventory while remaining economically competitive. …”
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A deformed global spherical optical potential to describe proton scattering off statically deformed heavy nuclei by S.M. Al-Rawashdeh, S.B. Masadeh

“…We examine the applicability of the adiabatic approximation in the case of proton scattering off statically deformed actinide and rare-earth nuclei. This is achieved by deforming a global spherical potential to allow coupling of the elastic channel to inelastic rotational excitation states. …”
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Analysis of thorium and transuranium utilization in a small modular reactor by Bakir Gizem

“…Two different fuel cases are considered in the analyses as the transuranium extracted from PWR-MOX spent fuel (a form of a mixture of minor actinide and Pu isotopes) (Case A) and 4.5 % enriched UO2 with ThO 2(the form of separate fuel rods) (Case B). …”
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Thermal-hydraulic analysis of innovative fuel configurations for the sodium fast reactor by Memmott, Matthew J

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Tracheal carcinoma in a patient with mucosal lichen planus: A ca report by A.H Habibi-Khorasani, A.H Borji, SH Dabiri, S Shamsodini

“…Therefore a combination of systemic corticosteroid and topical mucosal triamcinolon- actinide in orabase gel( kenalog in orabase) was used. …”
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Hydroxypyridinones as a Very Promising Platform for Targeted Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiopharmaceuticals by Xu Zhou, Linlin Dong, Langtao Shen

“…Hydroxypyridinones (HOPOs) have been used in the chelation therapy of iron and actinide metals. Their application in metal-based radiopharmaceuticals has also been increasing in recent years. …”
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Polyepitaxial grain matching to study the oxidation of uranium dioxide by Wasik, J, Sutcliffe, J, Podor, R, Lewis, J, Darnbrough, JE, Rennie, S, Akbar Hussain, S, Bell, C, Chaney, DA, Griffiths, G, Harding, LM, Legg, F, Lawrence Bright, E, Nicholls, R, Sasikumar, Y, Siberry, A, Smith, P, Springell, R

“…This has been applied to the actinide ceramic, uranium dioxide, to replicate structures typical in nuclear fission fuel pellets, in order to investigate the oxidation and subsequent transformation of cubic UO2 to orthorhombic U3O8. …”

Computational Study of the Physical Properties of a High Temperature Molten Salt Mixture of FLiNaK and CeF₃ by Alexander Galashev

“…The simulation results can be used to search for actinide, which can be replaced by cerium in real experiments.…”
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Transition quadrupole moments in superdeformed bands by Buck, B, Merchant, A, Perez, S

“…This approach reinforces our earlier conclusions concerning the occurrence of exotic clustering in actinide nuclei and also reveals a competing binary mode in these nuclei in which the cluster charge and mass are substantially larger than those corresponding to an exotic decomposition. …”

Elemental distribution of core marine sediments in the coast of Sabah, Malaysia by using neutron activation analysis and inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy by Ashraf, Ahmadreza

“…The present research was an investigation on the vertical distribution of the concentrations of heavy metals, trace elements, rare earth elements, major elements and actinides from the core marine sediment samples in the coastal areas of Sabah. …”
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Optimizing the Design of Small Fast Spectrum Battery-Type Nuclear Reactors by Staffan Qvist

“…A fully optimized inherently safe battery-type fast reactor core with an active height and diameter of 150 cm (2.6 m3), a pressure drop limit of 100 kPa and an irradiation damage limit of 300 DPA can be designed to operate at 150 MWt/60 MWe for 30 years, reaching an average discharge burnup of 100 MWd/kg-actinide.…”
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Structural, Electronic and Thermochemical Study of Interaction Between Lanthanum Trivalent Ion with Diglycolamide Extractants Using Density Functional Theory by T Hosseinnejad, F Mamusi

“…Diglycolamides have been widely investigated for the high efficient extraction of lanthanide and actinide ions from nuclear wastes. In the present study, we have mainly investigated the structural changes of diglycolamides and their interaction with trivalent lanthanum cation from the structural, electronic and thermodynamical viewpoints, using density functional theory (DFT) approach. …”
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Ab-initio evaluation of acid influence on chemical stability of hydrophilic diglycolamides by Jakub Luštinec, Tomáš Koubský, Ladislav Kalvoda

“…Diglycolamides (DGA) form one of the most promising groups of organic ligands used in bio-inspired solvent extraction processes of lanthanide and actinide ions. Continuous experimental and theoretical research is still performed in order to further improve their application properties including their chemical stability in the real extraction environment. …”
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