Articles tagged "nuclear waste"

The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016

Trapping of helium in nano-bubbles from 920 Ma euxenite crystals revealed by STEM-EELS analysis.

Anne-Magali Seydoux-Guillaume (1), Marie-Laure David (2), Kevin Alix (2), Lucien Datas (3), Bernard Bingen (4)

1. LMV, CNRS, Saint-Etienne, France 2. Institut Pprime, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France 3. Centre de microcaractérisation R. Castaing, CNRS, Toulouse, France 4. NGU, Service Géologique de Norvège, Trondheim, Norvège
The study of radiation damage resulting from alpha-decay from U and Th chains in radiocative U-Th minerals is of tremendous importance. Indeed, this damage critically…