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DOE OSTI2025

Comparison of Nb 3 Sn Insulation Systems With as Received and De-Sized Glass

Epoxy cracking has been the main suspected contributor to training in Nb 3 Sn magnets for some time, as it leads to energy release and magnet quenching. Cracking in a superconducting composite can occur from several modes, and the likelihood of these modes is not well understood. Failure has been observed between insulation systems and the superconducting cable itself rather than within the cable or insulation. To target the behavior at the interface, samples have been fabricated and tested for Mode I fracture toughness in an adapted version of ASTM D5528. This work seeks to better characterize the fracture toughness of this interface to better understand how to model and design insulation systems.

Krave, Steven T. [Fermilab] (ORCID:000000021752145↗
DOE OSTI2020

CCAT-prime: Designs and status of the first light 280 GHz MKID array and mod-cam receiver

The CCAT-prime project's first light array will be deployed in Mod-Cam, a single-module testbed and first light cryostat, on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in Chile's high Atacama desert in late 2022. FYST is a six-meter aperture telescope being built on Cerro Chajnantor at an elevation of 5600 meters to observe at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. 1 Mod-Cam will pave the way for Prime-Cam, the primary first generation instrument, which will house up to seven instrument modules to simultaneously observe the sky and study a diverse set of science goals from monitoring protostars to probing distant galaxy clusters and characterizing the cosmic microwave background (CMB). At least one feedhorn-coupled array of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) centered on 280 GHz will be included in Mod-Cam at first light, with additional instrument modules to be deployed along with Prime-Cam in stages. The first 280 GHz detector array was fabricated by the Quantum Sensors Group at NIST in Boulder, CO and includes 3,456 polarization- sensitive MKIDs. Current mechanical designs allow for up to three hexagonal arrays to be placed in each single instrument module. We present details on this first light detector array, including mechanical designs and cold readout plans, as well as introducing Mod-Cam as both a testbed and predecessor to Prime-Cam.

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DOE OSTI2019

Micropillar Tests of As-received and Irradiated FeCrAl C26M Alloys

The present report summarizes the efforts to investigate the deformation behavior of a FeCrAl C26M alloy before and after irradiation. In order to clarify the mechanical effects of radiation-induced defects along different crystallographic orientations, micropillars with the dimension of 600 nm in diameter and 1.3 um in height have been fabricated inside grains with different orientations. When compressed along [001] direction, it was found that the yield stress has increased from 630 MPa to 750 MPa at an average dpa level of 1 (peak dpa ~ 2.7), and to 850 MPa at 16 average dpa (peak dpa ~ 42.7). In addition, due to the appearance of radiation-induced defects, strain hardening response has been changed as well. Especially, when the flow stressis lower than 1.5 GPa, hardening response has been captured, which is due to the collective interaction of various shear bands. However, when the flow stress increases to larger than 1.5 GPa, another mode of shear band has been captured. The correlated process is at least ten times faster, corresponding to the sudden load drop in the stress strain plot. When the compression has been applied along [011] and [111] direction, the increase of yield stress after irradiation has also been captured. However, the correlated magnitude is different: yield stress of [011] increases from 500 MPa to 700 MPa at 1 dpa and to 1200 MPa at 16 dpa. On the other hand, when the compressive loading has been employed along [111], the correlated yield stress changes from 500 MPa to 700 MPa at 1 dpa and to 1400 MPa at 16 dpa. Moreover, the second mode of shear band has also been recorded in the 16 dpa irradiated sample when stress applied along [011], but not shown along [111] direction.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2019

Completion of Level 2 Milestone – M2AT 19IN030401044, Complete construction of the gas and moisture supply systems and receive the custom-designed tube furnace from the vendor

The Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) program has designed and is now constructing the Air/Moisture Ingress Experiment (AMIX) facility to test irradiated tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuels under air or moisture-ingress accidents postulated for high-temperature gas-cooled reactors. AMIX will ultimately be installed in the Fuel Conditioning Facility at the Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC) at Idaho National Laboratory. AMIX consists of a gas supply (capable of supplying mixtures of air/helium and steam/helium), a tube furnace capable of accepting samples up to 6 cm in diameter and heating them to 1650°C, gamma detectors for measuring the release of condensable, gamma-emitting fission products, and cold traps with gamma detectors for measuring the release of fission gases. Data obtained from AMIX experiments will be used to qualify this new generation of TRISO fuels with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and inform models and simulations of TRISO fuel accident performance and source term.

42 ENGINEERING↗
DOE OSTI2021

Autonomous Acoustic Receiver System for 3D Tracking and Monitoring Real-Time Fish Survival (CRADA 448)

Develop technologies that reduce the delay between changing hydropower operations and the acquisition of knowledge regarding fish behavior and survival and to reduce the cost and effort to obtain behavioral information of fish that is both accurate and detailed. The technologies being proposed would allow hydropower operators to quickly understand the impact of operational changes on fish and allow fisheries researchers to study fish behavior in high resolution at locations that previously would have been unfeasible.

13 HYDRO ENERGY↗
DOE OSTI2022

Solar Receiver with Integrated Thermal Storage for a Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Cycle

This project endeavors to design and demonstrate an integrated CSP system that meets the Department of Energy’s 6¢/kW-hr LCOE goal [1]. This design is based on the 10 MWe Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) engine specifications, but adaptable to any sCO 2 power module up to 10 MW e . The enabling technology to be tested is a new class of metal hydride based thermal energy storage materials which can store thermal energy in the hydrogen bonds between the metal hydride and hydrogen. This thermochemical energy storage solution provides a much greater energy density than sensible and latent energy storage enabling an integrated system design that closely linked the metal hydride to the power block. This allows the entire system to be mounted up tower to provide cost reductions. A novel metal hydride, capable of operating above 760 °C, was developed during the course of this project and thoroughly tested at a lab scale. The material’s hydrogen capacity, reaction enthalpy, thermal conductivity, and cyclic stability were measured. A demonstration test article was built that can store 2kWh of thermal energy and was coupled to Brayton Energy’s CO 2 loop where the performance of the metal hydride under commercial conditions was measured. An integrated model was created that uses the inputs from all the different sub-models in order to return an overall system LCOE using SAM. This project greatly advanced metal hydride based thermochemical energy storage technology and demonstrated its use. Previously there were no metal hydrides which were capable of operating at the proposed temperature limits (760°C), there is now a high temperature metal hydride with documented performance/stability and a path for low-cost production. Additionally, the metal hydride was tested at a scale >650x larger than what had previously been done in the lab. While not at commercial scale, it was an excellent demonstration of the technology and provided knowledge that can be leveraged for other applications.

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