Real-Time Elemental and Isotopic Measurements of Molten Salt Systems through Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

HB Andrews, ZB Kitzhaber, D Orea… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Molten salt reactors are an emerging advanced nuclear reactor concept in which the fuel is
dissolved into the working fluid in the form of a high-temperature molten salt. The complex …

Gamma-ray signatures for identifying plutonium diversion in molten salt reactors

B Kovacevic, AV Soares, AT Lintereur… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2023 - ingentaconnect.com
Liquid-fueled Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) have garnered recent interest for their many
advantages, but a remaining challenge is nuclear material accounting for nuclear …

The MPACT 2020 Milestone: Safeguards and Security by Design of Future Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities

BB Cipiti, M Browne, M Reim - Journal of Nuclear Materials …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
The Materials Protection, Accounting, and Control Technologies (MPACT) campaign, within
the US Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy, has developed a Virtual Facility …

[PDF][PDF] Deployment and Demonstration of Process Monitoring Equipment and Techniques in a Pyroprocessing Facility

A Williams, R Hoover, N Hoyt… - Institute of Nuclear …, 2023 - resources.inmm.org
Significant effort has been made in the US and internationally to advance pyroprocessing as
a viable used nuclear fuel reprocessing technology. While major advancements in the …

Development of safeguards instrumentation and techniques at the Idaho National Laboratory for an electrochemical facility

AN Williams, G Cao, B Westphal… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
The United States (US) Department of Energy (DOE) Materials Protection, Accounting, and
Controls Technology (MPACT) campaign has been developing a Virtual Facility Distributed …

Application of Principal Component Analysis to Electrochemical Reprocessing PM and NMAC

PL Lafreniere - 2023 - osti.gov
In this report, data from an electrorefiner (ER) for nuclear fuel reprocessing is evaluated for
process monitoring (PM) conclusions. This data comes from tests performed at the Idaho …

Safeguards Modeling for Advanced Nuclear Facility Design

BB Cipiti, N Shoman, P Honnold - Journal of Nuclear Materials …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
Future nuclear fuel cycle facilities will see a significant benefit from considering materials
accountancy requirements early in the design process. The Material Protection, Accounting …

[PDF][PDF] Application of Partial Least Squares Approaches to Pyroprocessing ER Data

PL Lafreniere - 2024 - osti.gov
Multivariate approaches show promise for application to process monitoring for safeguards
of pyroprocessing. Past MPACT work explored the application of Principal Component …

[PDF][PDF] Machine Learning-Assisted Chemometrics for Concentration Detection from Linear Sweep Voltammetry Measurements

A Akins, A Polke, S DelaCruz, N Hoyt, A Heifetz - researchgate.net
Material accountancy is often challenging in molten salt fuel reprocessing systems due to
the high temperatures, corrosivity, complex fluid mixtures and complex material fluxes. To …

Developing Software Tools to Characterize Electrochemical Loss Scenarios via Gamma Detection for Various Measurement Points, Source Geometries, and Process …

NC Harris - 2020 - ir.library.oregonstate.edu
Faithful modeling of the expected gamma signals inside an electrochemical facility at
various key measurement points is important for understanding what detection limits are …