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ARPA-E announces $40 million to develop transmutation technologies for UNF
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) announced $40 million in funding to develop cutting-edge technologies to enable the transmutation of used nuclear fuel into less-radioactive substances. According to ARPA-E, the new initiative addresses one of the agency’s core goals as outlined by Congress: to provide transformative solutions to improve the management, cleanup, and disposal of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel.
Brian Kelleher, Kieran Dolan, Mark Anderson, Kumar Sridharan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 195 | Number 3 | September 2016 | Pages 239-252
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT15-140
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A compact electrochemical probe has been used to measure the redox potential ranges of molten Li2BeF4, a candidate nuclear reactor coolant commonly referred to as flibe, via a dynamic beryllium reference electrode. This probe is capable of operating on a loop, but was used on a static system in salt at temperatures up to 600°C. The probe has been used to measure Li2BeF4 salt with observed redox potentials ranging from −1.792 ± 0.002 V to −0.465 ± 0.134 V, yielding individual errors as low as ± 4 mV, and weighted groupings with errors as low as ± 1 mV. The most reducing measurement taken with acceptable error was −0.962 ± 0.011 V. This probe can be adapted for use in many laboratory experiments using flibe and should be considered for any corrosion experiment supporting the development of a next-generation molten salt reactor.