Kinetics of cellular transformation and competing precipitation mechanisms during sub-eutectoid annealing of U10Mo alloys

Transformation kinetics of metastable body-centered cubic γ-UMo phase in U-10 wt.% Mo alloy during annealing at sub-eutectoid temperatures of 500 °C and 400 °C has been determined as a function of time using detailed microstructural characterization by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction analysis, scanning transmission electron microscopy, and atom probe tomography. Based on the results, we found that the phase transformation is...