A note on crystalline binding in uranium dioxide and its effect on the doppler broadening of uranium resonances

Abstract

The “weighted” phonon frequency spectra developed for U and O in UO₂ by Thorson and Jarvis (1969) are used to deduce the effective temperatures for these two nuclides, and some comments are made on the effect of crystalline binding in UO₂ on the temperature broadening of resonances in uranium.