Process of Production of Cermet Based on DUO2 – Steel in Cold Crucible Induction Melter to be Used as Protective Material for spent nuclear fuel container’s structures

Depleted uranium dioxide - steel cermet takes advantages of another materials used now in construction of protective containers for spent nuclear fuel and radioactive wastes as follows: • advanced gamma and neutron radiation protection at the expense of more higher density then steel and metal concrete and presence of oxygen of DUO2; • unlike metal depleted uranium, cermet of stainless steel and DUO2 is more resistant to aggressive medium that is very important property in the case of use of cermet containers for long-term (in geological time scale) storage of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive wastes burial in underground depositories.