Core UK Equipment Base for Characterisation and Analysis of Highly Radioactive Materials

英国高放射性材料表征和分析核心设备基地

• 批准号: EP/I034106/1
• 负责人: Francis Livens
• 金额: $ 201.1万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FI034106%2F1
• 关键词: Core; UK; Equipment; Base; Characterisation

Academic nuclear fission research has increased over the last ten years from a base of around zero to a current portfolio about 38M (typically 8-9M/annum). Both industry and the extensive UK university network involved in nuclear research have stressed the importance of research using authentic, and thus by definition highly radioactive, materials. While a few UK universities routinely use small quantities of radioactive materials in their own laboratories, the only facility in the UK that could be accessed by university researchers for work on highly radioactive materials is the NNL's Central Laboratory.Due to the absence of suitable facilities and equipment, any nuclear research carried out by UK academia is restricted either to simulants or to limited programmes carried out overseas. While the quality of science is good within these constraints, all overseas competitors now have access to specialised facilities in national laboratories and work based on simulants is increasingly seen as falling below the normal quality benchmark. Any credible UK research programme must therefore have at its foundation the ability to work with and characterise highly radioactive samples. The UK also faces major R&D and skills challenges in many areas of nuclear science and technology, which can only be met by a concerted, cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional programme of research and training built around close collaboration between industry, regulators and academia. This programme must be underpinned by facilities not just for the preparation of highly radioactive samples, but also for their characterisation. Since Central Laboratory is presently geared towards industrially driven development in which characterisation is a lesser priority, its capability in this area needs to be significantly enhanced. The provision of state-of-the-art analysis and characterisation facilities will therefore support research across all of the UK's priority nuclear research themes, and thus benefit the entire nuclear academic sector. We therefore propose to establish a core equipment base could be established in the National Nuclear Laboratory's Central Laboratory. This would be unique in the UK and facilitate world class fundamental research. Priority areas are spectroscopy and electron optics

在过去的十年里，学术核裂变研究从零增长到目前的3800万（通常每年8- 900万）。工业界和参与核研究的广泛的英国大学网络都强调了使用真实的、因此根据定义是高放射性的材料进行研究的重要性。虽然一些英国大学经常在自己的实验室中使用少量放射性材料，但英国唯一可供大学研究人员使用进行高放射性材料研究的设施是NNL的中央实验室。由于缺乏合适的设施和设备，英国学术界进行的任何核研究都仅限于模拟物或在海外进行的有限项目。虽然在这些限制条件下，科学质量是好的，但所有海外竞争者现在都可以使用国家实验室的专门设施，基于模拟物的工作越来越被视为低于正常质量基准。因此，任何可信的联合王国研究方案都必须具备处理和分析高放射性样本的能力。英国在核科学和技术的许多领域也面临着重大的研发和技能挑战，这只能通过围绕行业，监管机构和学术界之间的密切合作建立的协调一致，跨学科，跨机构的研究和培训计划来应对。这一方案必须得到不仅用于制备高放射性样品而且用于鉴定样品性质的设施的支持。由于中央实验室目前面向工业驱动的发展，其中表征是一个次要的优先事项，它在这方面的能力需要显着提高。因此，提供最先进的分析和表征设施将支持英国所有优先核研究主题的研究，从而使整个核学术部门受益。因此，我们建议在国家核实验室的中心实验室建立一个核心设备基地。这将是英国独一无二的，并促进世界级的基础研究。优先领域是光谱学和电子光学

项目成果

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• DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2014.12.019
• 发表时间: 2015-02-01
• 期刊: HYDROMETALLURGY
• 影响因子: 4.7
• 作者: Carrott, Michael;Geist, Andreas;Taylor, Robin
• 通讯作者: Taylor, Robin

Rapid selective separation of americium/curium from simulated nuclear forensic matrices using triazine ligands

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• DOI: 10.1515/ract-2015-2403
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Radiochimica Acta
• 影响因子: 1.8
• 作者: Higginson M

Processing and microstructural characterisation of a UO2-based ceramic for disposal studies on spent AGR fuel

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• DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.09.002
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Journal of Nuclear Materials
• 影响因子: 3.1
• 作者: Hiezl Z

Experimental and modelling evidence for hydrogen trapping at a ß-Nb second phase particle and Nb-rich nanoclusters in neutron-irradiated low Sn ZIRLO

中子辐照低 Sn ZIRLO 中的 β-Nb 第二相粒子和富 Nb 纳米团簇中氢捕获的实验和建模证据

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2023.154755
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Nuclear Materials
• 影响因子: 3.1
• 作者: Jenkins B

On the nature of cracks and voids in nuclear graphite

• DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2016.03.011
• 发表时间: 2016-07-01
• 期刊: CARBON
• 影响因子: 10.9
• 作者: Freeman, H. M.;Jones, A. N.;Brydson, R. M. D.
• 通讯作者: Brydson, R. M. D.