A5091090294- Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
- Nuclear Physics and Applications
- Nuclear Materials and Properties
- Crystallography and molecular interactions
- Radioactive element chemistry and processing
- Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research
- Chemical Synthesis and Characterization
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2021-2025
Abstract Curium and promethium share similar chemical physical properties thereby complicating their separation. Co-located processing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory results in curium contamination of the fission product stream containing promethium. To gain insight into difficulty this separation, fundamental these elements are experimentally computationally probed a 2,2’:6’,2”-terpyridine crystal system. Analysis isostructural compounds via single X-ray diffraction quantum theory atoms...
The production of plutonium-238 through irradiation neptunium-237 (237Np) target materials for the use in radioisotope thermoelectric generators is paramount continued deep space exploration. This work employs scanning electron microscopy to analyze 237Np coupled with a well-developed image analysis framework (Morphological Analysis Material Attribution, or MAMA) determine degree micron-scale homogeneity materials. demonstrated how quantification particle characteristics can validate and...