Nuclear Forensic signatures in the Thorium Fuel Cycle

博士将研究钍（ThO2）的主要全球来源，并确定关键的诊断特征，这些特征将允许钍的来源，并确定它起源于核燃料循环的哪里。钍作为铀作为核燃料材料的“不扩散”替代品，最近获得了越来越多的全球关注，因此有战略需要加强我们对这些材料的法医和材料科学理解。这个材料科学和物理博士将利用一系列尖端技术来研究这些很少研究的材料的特征物理化学和同位素特征。

The PhD will investigate the main global sources of thoria (ThO2) and determine the key diagnostic signatures that would allow thoria to be provenanced and to determine where in the nuclear fuel cycle it originated from. Thorium has recently been gaining increasing global attention as a 'non-proliferation' alternative to uranium as a nuclear fuel material as hence there is a strategic need to bolster our forensic and materials science understanding of these materials.This materials science and Physics PhD will utilise an array of cutting edge techniques to investigate the characteristic physiochemical and isotopic signatures of these rarely studies materials.