Table 2 Stoichiometry of the surfaces of the UO2 pellets sintered in contact with the positive piston (top) and negative piston (bottom), calculated from XRD shifts.

From: On the Role of the Electrical Field in Spark Plasma Sintering of UO2+x

Sample

O/M

800 °C SPS (positive surface)

2.14

800 °C SPS (negative surface)

2.03

1000 °C SPS (positive surface)

2.05

1000 °C SPS (negative surface)

2.00

  1. The estimated error is ±0.01.