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Panelists discuss U.S. path to criticality in ANS webinar
The American Nuclear Society recently hosted a panel discussion featuring prominent figures from the nuclear sector who discussed the industry’s ongoing push for criticality.
Yasir Arafat, chief technical officer of Aalo Atomics; Jordan Bramble, CEO of Antares Nuclear; and Rita Baranwal, chief nuclear officer of Radiant Industries, participated in the discussion and covered their recent progress in the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program. Nader Satvat, director of nuclear systems design at Kairos Power, gave an update on the company’s ongoing demonstration projects taking place outside of the landscape of DOE authorization.
Masaru Todoriki, Atsuyuki Suzuki
Nuclear Technology | Volume 120 | Number 1 | October 1997 | Pages 81-85
Technical Note | Enrichment and Reprocessing System | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35433
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The laser-induced thermal lens oscillation process, which can be generated in an organic solution by argon-ion laser irradiation is studied to investigate the possibility of its application for monitoring of tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP) concentration in nuclear fuel reprocessing. The oscillation process is a nonlinear dynamical system whose states depend on three control parameters: laser beam power, depth from solution surface to a laser beam irradiation position, and concentration of solvent, i.e., TBP. From a series of experiments, it is found that a transition between different states is distinctly related to the concentration of TBP solution. From this result, a new on-line monitoring method of solvent concentration is proposed. This method indicates the technique’s potential as a viable on-line analytical instrument in solvent extraction processes of nuclear fuel reprocessing.