“…Because of the drastic conditions of use, these characteristics could change. High temperatures and high irradiation doses will modify considerably the initial properties of the material and could lead to the collapse of the material by swelling, polygonization or amorphization [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Alternative ways to produce these UC x targets were examined such as the carbothermal reduction at high temperature of other uranium precursors such as oxide [25,26] or oxalate [24].…”