Sim-Fuel and Alpha-Active Material Manufacturing and Characterisation Capability

Sim-Fuel 和 Alpha-活性材料制造和表征能力

基本信息

批准号：
EP/T011297/1
负责人：
Timothy Abram
金额：
$ 703.75万
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：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FT011297%2F1
关键词：
Sim Fuel Alpha Active Material

项目摘要

The aim of this proposal is to provide key equipment that will deliver an internationally-unique open-access academic capability to manufacture, irradiate, and examine the pre- and post-irradiation characteristics of a range of alpha-active radioactive materials containing uranium, thorium, and plutonium and other trans-uranic elements. This equipment will be pivotal in linking together around £35M of existing nuclear research infrastructure at the University of Manchester in order to fully realise their capabilities to explore a wide range of materials that are of critical importance to the nuclear sector.The specific equipment requested is:1. a Focussed Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscope;2. a Scanning/Transmission Electron Microscope; and3. a plutonium-active inert-atmosphere glove-box for sample preparation.Hitherto, the capability to manufacture, irradiate, and characterise uranium and plutonium containing materials has only been available within large government-owned national laboratory facilities. Whilst such facilities remain vital for research into very highly active samples and materials containing large quantities of trans-uranic elements, the availability of an academic capability that is able to work with kg-quantities of uranium and gram-quantities of plutonium will provide an opportunity for a far wider range of access, and the means to undertake highly detailed and insightful studies at costs and time-scales that are simply not possible within larger nuclear-licensed facilities.The range of science and technology impacts enabled by the new equipment cover the full spectrum of the nuclear fuel cycle, and include: improved understanding of the performance of existing nuclear fuels to improve safety; the development of new fuel materials for existing and next-generation reactors; the production of representative surrogate irradiated fuels (i.e. SimFuels) to assist in the development of new recycle technologies for spent fuel; improved understanding of the behaviour of U and TRU-bearing materials within environmental samples; and improved understanding and development of materials to facilitate the disposal of radioactive wastes (e.g. immobilisation matrix materials). Researchers from all of these communities will be encouraged to access the internationally-leading capability that the new equipment provides.In addition to creating a major body of knowledge on the performance of alpha-emitting radioactive materials for the variety of different applications mentioned above, the facilities will play a major role in providing training and education in the safe handling of alpha-active materials. This will provide a new generation of post-doctoral researchers with a range of skills that will be vital in ensuring the successful implementation of the Government's nuclear strategy in the coming decades.

该提案的目的是提供关键设备，该设备将提供国际唯一的开放式学术能力，以制造，照射和检查一系列含有铀，thorium和prutonium和plutonium和plutonium和其他跨哺乳元素的α活性放射性材料的辐照前和辐照后特征。该设备将在曼彻斯特大学将大约3500万英镑的现有核研究基础设施连接在一起，以充分意识到他们探索对核部门至关重要的广泛材料的能力。聚焦的离子束扫描电子显微镜； 2。扫描/透射电子显微镜；和3。用于样品制备的羽毛状惰性大气手套盒。仅在大型政府拥有的国家实验室设施中才能提供制造，照射和表征含铀和含铀材料的能力。尽管此类设施对于研究非常活跃的样品和材料的研究仍然至关重要，但含有大量的跨性来自族裔元素的可用性，能够与KG-铀和prutium的gg量一起使用的学术能力将为更大的范围和较大的范围提供较大的范围，并且可以提供更大的范围，并且可以提供更大的范围，并且可以提供更大的范围，并且可以提供更大的范围，并且可以提供更多的时间，并且可以详细地进行成本和洞察力，并且是详细的成本，并且是详细信息的，并且是详细的，并且是详细的，并且可以提供更多的范围，并且可以进行详细的成本和时间范围。设施。新设备涵盖了核燃料周期的全部范围，科学和技术的影响范围包括：提高对现有核燃料的性能以提高安全性的理解；为现有和下一代反应堆开发新的燃料材料；生产代表性的替代辐照燃料（即Simfuels），以帮助开发新的回收技术用于支出燃料；对环境样本中U和TRU的材料的行为的了解得以提高；并改善了材料的理解和发展，以促进放射性废物的处置（例如固定矩阵材料）。将鼓励来自所有这些社区的研究人员访问新设备提供的国际领先能力。除了创建有关上述各种不同应用的Alpha发射放射性材料表现的重要知识，该设施将在提供Alpha Activive材料的安全处理方面在提供培训和教育方面起主要作用。这将为新一代博士后研究人员提供一系列技能，这对于确保未来几十年成功实施政府核战略至关重要。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（6）

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A spatially resolved analysis of dislocation loop and nanohardness evolution in proton irradiated Zircaloys

质子辐照锆合金中位错环和纳米硬度演化的空间分辨分析

DOI：
10.1016/j.actamat.2024.119799
发表时间：
2024
期刊：
Acta Materialia
影响因子：
9.4
作者：
Koç Ö
通讯作者：
Koç Ö

Development and Comparison of Field Assisted Sintering Techniques to Densify CeO2 Ceramics

DOI：
10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2022.06.079
发表时间：
2022-07
期刊：
Journal of the European Ceramic Society
影响因子：
5.7
作者：
R. Harrison;J. Morgan;J. Buckley;S. Bostanchi;C. Green;R. White;D. Pearmain;T. Abram;D. Goddard;N.J. Barron
通讯作者：
R. Harrison;J. Morgan;J. Buckley;S. Bostanchi;C. Green;R. White;D. Pearmain;T. Abram;D. Goddard;N.J. Barron

HAXPES reference spectra of UO2 generated with Ga Ka x-ray source

Ga Ka X 射线源生成的 UO2 HAXPES 参考光谱