Publications related to Fluoride volatility

A concept for the extraction of the most refractory elements at CERN-ISOLDE as carbonyl complex ions

We introduce a novel thick-target concept tailored to the extraction of refractory 4d and 5d transition metal radionuclides of molybdenum, technetium, ruthenium and tungsten for radioactive ion beam production. Despite the more than 60-year old history of ...

2022

Interface Tracking Investigation of the Sliding Bubbles Effects on Heat Transfer in the Laminar Regime

Konstantin Mikityuk, Lubomír Bures

Helium gases are utilized to remove fission products from the molten salt fast reactor (MSFR) core during operation. Helium gases and other volatile fission products may be introduced into the intermediate heat exchanger channels. The effect of these gases ...

2022

Efficient Kr/Xe separation from triangular g-C(3)N(4)nanopores, a simulation study

Nicola Marzari, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Nicola Colonna, Davide Campi, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra

Poly(triazine imide) or PTI is a promising material for molecular sieving membranes, thanks to its atom-thick ordered lattice with an extremely high density (1.6 x 10(14)pores per cm(2)) of triangular-shaped nanopores of similar to 0.34 nm diameter. Here, ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Conceptual Design of a Sustainable Waste Burning Molten Salt Reactor

Boris Aviv Hombourger

For an energy source to qualify as sustainable, it must maximize the efficiency with which it uses natural resources while minimizing the amounts of waste it produces. Currently deployed nuclear power plants however use a very limited amount of the energy ...

EPFL2018

Unraveling Thermodynamics, Stability, and Oxygen Evolution Activity of Strontium Ruthenium Perovskite Oxide

Nicola Marzari, Ivano Eligio Castelli, Xi Cheng

Extensive investigations in understanding the functional mechanisms of metal oxides behind oxygen evolution have been carried out since an electrolyzer has demonstrated promising possibilities as a device to produce hydrogen for electrochemical energy conv ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Metal-organic framework with optimally selective xenon adsorption and separation

Berend Smit, Cory Matthew Simon, Jian Liu

Nuclear energy is among the most viable alternatives to our current fossil fuel-based energy economy. The mass deployment of nuclear energy as a low-emissions source requires the reprocessing of used nuclear fuel to recover fissile materials and mitigate r ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

What Are the Best Materials To Separate a Xenon/Krypton Mixture?

Berend Smit, Cory Matthew Simon, Rocio Mercado, Sondre Kvalvag Schnell

Accelerating progress in the discovery and deployment of advanced nanoporous materials relies on chemical insight and structure-property relationships for rational design. Because of the complexity of this problem, trial-and-error is heavily involved in th ...

American Chemical Society2015

Analysis of Advanced Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor Core Designs with Improved Safety Characteristics

Kaichao Sun

In order to meet the steadily increasing worldwide energy demand, nuclear power is expected to continue playing a key role in electricity production. Currently, the large majority of nuclear power plants are operated with thermal-neutron spectra and need r ...

EPFL2012

Modelling of fission gas behaviour in high burnup nuclear fuel

Paul Blair

The safe and economic operation of nuclear power plants (NPPs) requires that the behaviour and performance of the fuel can be calculated reliably over its expected lifetime. This requires highly developed codes that treat the nuclear fuel in a general mann ...

EPFL2008

Reactivity and neutron emission measurements of highly burnt PWR fuel rod samples

Rakesh Chawla, Fabian Jatuff

Fuel rods with burnup values beyond 50GWd/t are characterised by relatively large amounts of fission products and a high abundance of major and minor actinides. Of particular interest is the change in the reactivity of the fuel as a function of burnup and ...

Elsevier2006