Nuclear Forensic signatures in the Thorium Fuel Cycle

钍燃料循环中的核法医签名

• 批准号: 2120385
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2120385
• 关键词: Nuclear; Forensic; signatures; Thorium; Fuel

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.

博士将调查全球主要的氧化钍（ThO2）来源，并确定关键的诊断特征，使氧化钍能够被证明，并确定它在核燃料循环中的起源。钍最近已经获得越来越多的全球关注作为一个“不扩散”的替代铀作为核燃料材料，因此有一个战略需要，以加强我们的法医和材料科学对这些材料的理解。这个材料科学和物理学博士将利用一系列尖端技术来调查这些很少研究材料的特征物理化学和同位素签名。