Which oxidation state of uranium and thorium as point defects in xenotime is favorable?

Yuriy V. Lomachuk, Daniil A. Maltsev, Nikolai S. Mosyagin +3

Relativistic study of xenotime, YPO${}_4$, containing atoms thorium and uranium as point defects is performed in the framework of cluster model with using the compound-tunable embedd…