A Critical Review of Uranium Research at DREV for the Period 1963-73

Summarizing a decade of internal and sponsored uranium research at DREV, this paper covers more than 25 reports on in-house and research investigations made under contracts and university grants. The paper, which gives a broad overview of Canadian achievements in this area, is divided into five parts. The first is concerned with alloy developments, i.e. the heat-treatment responses of more than 100 binary, ternary and quaternary uranium alloys, whereas the second and the third cover more extensive investigations of the two most promising alloys, the quaternary U-1Mo-1Zr-1Nb and the binary U-2Mo. Various other aspects of uranium metallurgy, such as powder metallurgy, grain growth, pyrophoricity and directional casting, are briefly described in the fourth section. A list of the most important results obtained during the course of these investigations is presented in the final section.
Attached summary in French.