Environment & Energy

My memory isn't what it used to be.

I know I've investigated Pd in fluorine electrodes. Surprisingly it's not as good as either nickel or platinum, its contenders for this purpose it seems.

In exotic cladding for metallic nuclear fuels palladium doping works to scavenge lanthanide migrations.

I probably should look in my files to see if I ever down loaded a Pd/Pu phase diagram. I've been thinking quite a bit about peritectics to contain liquid plutonium eutectics, an idea of which I have been unable to let go although it seems to annoy my son. I'll hopefully get it through his head before I die.

It's very clear from the literature that a lot of attention is being paid to the recovery of fissiogenic palladium, rhodium and ruthenium from used nuclear fuel. I plan to write about interesting considerations around rhodium at some point in the future here.

Thanks, as always, for your comment.