Proceedings of the Second International Atomic Energy Agency Specialists' Meeting on Subcritical Crack Growth, held at Sendai, Japan, May 15-17, 1985 /

"MEA-2090."

Growth of alpha plutonium crystals from melts under extreme pressure /

Large-grained alpha plutonium has been prepared by slow solidification of melts under pressure of about 60 kbars. The technique opens the way to produce single crystals of alpha plutonium, and to obtain basic information previously unattainable.