Laser ablation plasmas and spectroscopy for nuclear applications

EH Kwapis, J Borrero, KS Latty, HB Andrews… - Applied …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The development of measurement methodologies to detect and monitor nuclear-relevant
materials remains a consistent and significant interest across the nuclear energy …

Review of aerosol analysis by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

H Ji, Y Ding, L Zhang, Y Hu, X Zhong - Applied Spectroscopy …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a rapid and simple analytical method that
provides qualitative and quantitative elemental information of samples without damaging …

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 …

Progress of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in nuclear industry applications

J Wu, Y Qiu, X Li, H Yu, Z Zhang… - Journal of Physics D …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to ensure the safety and economy of nuclear industry production, the analysis of
nuclear materials and other materials used in nuclear industry environments are usually …

Machine learning-assisted laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for monitoring molten salt compositions of small modular reactor fuel under varying laser focus …

Y Lee, RI Foster, H Kim, S Choi - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Next-generation advanced nuclear reactors based on molten salts are interested to apply
machine learning (ML) technology to minimize human error and realize effective …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of contaminated nuclear plant steel by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

A Lang, D Engelberg, NT Smith, D Trivedi… - Journal of hazardous …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) has the potential to allow direct,
standoff measurement of contaminants on nuclear plant. Here, LIBS is evaluated as an …

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 …

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 …

In-situ measurement of Ce concentration in high-temperature molten salts using acoustic-assisted laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy with gas protective layer

Y Lee, S Yoon, N Kim, D Kang, H Kim, W Yang… - Nuclear Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
An advanced nuclear reactor based on molten salts including a molten salt reactor and
pyroprocessing needs a sensitive monitoring system suitable for operation in harsh …

Study on tea harvested in different seasons based on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

X Lu, Y Liu, Q Zhang, L Li - Laser physics letters, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In this study, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) was applied to detect some
samples of tea, which were picked in three different seasons: spring, summer, and autumn …