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Tensile Creep Ductility of Neutron-irradiated Alpha-uranium

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ALTHOUGH a great amount of data has been accumulated on the creep properties of α-uranium1,2, the experimental difficulties associated with intense radioactivity have usually precluded the determination of these properties on the neutron-irradiated material.

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SYKES, E., GREENWOOD, G. Tensile Creep Ductility of Neutron-irradiated Alpha-uranium. Nature 206, 181–182 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206181a0

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