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Argonne research aims to improve nuclear fuel recycling and metal recovery
Servis
Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are investigating a used nuclear fuel recycling technology that could lead to a scaled-down and more efficient approach to metal recovery, according to a recent news article from the lab. The research, led by Argonne radiochemist Anna Servis with funding from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E), could have an impact beyond the nuclear fuel cycle and improve other high-value metal processing, such as rare earth recovery, according to Argonne.
The research: Servis’s work is being carried out under ARPA-E’s CURIE (Converting UNF Radioisotopes Into Energy) program. The specific project—Radioisotope Capture Intensification Using Rotating Packed Bed Contactors—started in 2023 and is scheduled to end in January 2026.
Nikolaus Christiansen, Derek Schmidt, John Martinez, Valerie Fatherley, Justin Jorgenson, Noah Birge, Verena Geppert-Kleinrath, Carl Wilde
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 7 | October 2023 | Pages 907-913
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2210298
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The neutron pinhole array, used to collect neutron burn, X-ray, and more recently, gamma emission images, has been in use at the National Ignition Facility since 2011. Since then, there has been the ever-continuing challenge of meeting tighter alignment and resolution requirements. Part of that challenge is being able to accurately characterize the as-built variances from the nominal design associated with the manufacturing and assembly of the pinhole array. To overcome this specific challenge, multiple processes are taken to obtain high-precision profiles of the various features of each pinhole array. This paper highlights the processes used as well as the steps taken to compile the significant amount of data and turn it into an accurate as-built reconstructed model of the NIS1-U–assembled pinhole array.