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Uranium Carbide

UC

Fuels

ρ = 13.63 g/cm³

Uranium monocarbide fuel at 5% U-235 enrichment. High heavy-metal density and good thermal properties for fast reactor and space reactor applications.

Composition

Nuclide / ElementFraction
U-2350.025000
U-2380.475000
C-120.500000

Code output

MCNP
c Uranium Carbide (5 wt% U-235)
c Density: 13.63 g/cm3 (use -13.63 on cell card)
m7    92235.80c  0.025000  $ U-235
      92238.80c  0.475000  $ U-238
       6000.80c  0.500000  $ C (natural)

SCONE: build nuclearData.materials entries from these nuclides. See SCONE nuclear data and library reference.

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