Survey of prospective techniques for molten salt reactor feed monitoring

SE Skutnik, PW Sobel, MW Swinney, KK Hogue… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract 1 Safeguards verification measurements of nuclear material content in fresh fuel
salt for liquid-fueled molten salt reactors (MSRs) are likely to be required as part of nuclear …

Quantification of lanthanides in a molten salt reactor surrogate off-gas stream using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

HB Andrews, KG Myhre - Applied Spectroscopy, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
To enable the deployment of molten salt reactor technology, the development of off-gas
treatment systems and advanced monitoring tools capable of operating with high …

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) measurement of uranium in molten salt

A Williams, S Phongikaroon - Applied spectroscopy, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In this current study, the molten salt aerosol–laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)
system was used to measure the uranium (U) content in a ternary UCl3–LiCl–KCl salt to …

Detection of Off-Gassed Products From Molten Salts Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

D Diaz, DW Hahn - Applied Spectroscopy, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The detection of off-gassed sodium from molten sodium nitrate (NaNO3) at temperatures
between 330° C and 505° C and off-gassed calcium from molten lithium chloride–potassium …

Concept for an irradiation experiment to test a laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy off-gas sensor for molten salt systems

HB Andrews, KG Myhre, J McFarlane - Frontiers in Energy Research, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This paper focuses on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) as an off-gas sensor
and details a conceptual irradiation experiment to evaluate its performance in an …

Electrochemical and Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Signal Fusion for Detection of UCl3-GdCl3-MgCl2 in LiCl-KCl Molten Salt

H Andrews, S Phongikaroon - Nuclear Technology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This study sets out to demonstrate the capability of using electrochemistry and laser-induced
breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for concentration prediction of multiple species in a molten …

Nuclear Applications of Laser‐Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

G Galbács, É Kovács‐Széles - Laser Induced Breakdown …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the directions and progress of laser‐
induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) analytical developments in the nuclear field …

Characterization of surrogate molten salt reactor aerosol streams

H Andrews, J McFarlane - 2021 - osti.gov
Measuring the aerosol evolution from MSRs is important for monitoring the off-gas system of
the reactor and is particularly important for detecting off-normal conditions. In a molten salt …

A novel framework for intelligent signal detection via artificial neural networks for cyclic voltammetry in pyroprocessing technology

SR Pouri, M Manic, S Phongikaroon - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Electrorefiner (ER) is the heart of pyroprocessing technology which contains different fission,
rare-earth, and transuranic chloride compositions during the operation. This is still a …

Development of Near-Real Time Material Detection and Analysis by Coupling Electrochemical & Optical Spectroscopy Methods for Molten Salt Systems

H Andrews - 2020 - scholarscompass.vcu.edu
For both pyroprocessing and molten salt reactors (MSRs), it is desirable from a process
control and nuclear safeguards perspective to monitor the species in the molten salts for …