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Browsing Natural and Agricultural Sciences by Supervisor "Njoroge, E.G. (Eric G.)"
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-07-01)The demand for dry casks for extended storage of radioactive nuclear waste is driven by dearth of permanent repositories. Most of the dry cask storage system currently in use are made up of stainless steel which could ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Silicon carbide (SiC) is used as the main diffusion barrier to prevent the fission products (FPs) from escaping in high temperature reactors (HTRs). It retains most of the FPs quite effectively with the exception of silver, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This study is in two parts. Both parts are geared towards the study of the effectiveness of glassy carbon as a good storage material was investigated. Firstly, 200 keV Xe ions were implanted into glassy carbon substrates ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)In this thesis,zirconium carbide (ZrC) layers were deposited on graphite substrates using a CVD reactor at temperatures ranging from 1250 °C to 1450 °C in steps of 50 °C. The deposited layers were characterised by XRD, ...
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