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Molecules and oligomers for endothermic singlet fission

The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a repeat unit defined by where each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and R8 includes at least one of a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, and/or a first hydrocarbon chain having between 1 and 20 carbon atoms, inclusively, where each of A1, A2, A3 and A4 are either a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom, when A1 is a nitrogen atom, A2 is a carbon atom, when A2 is a nitrogen atom, A1 is a carbon atom, when A3 is a nitrogen atom, A4 is a carbon atom, when A4 is a nitrogen atom, A3 is a carbon atom, either A1 or A2 form a covalent bond, x, with a carbon atom, a, either A3 or A4 form a covalent bond, y, with a carbon atom, b, L is a linker group that includes an aromatic ring, and n is between 1 and 20, inclusively.

Korovina, Nadezhda↗

Effects of Neutron Irradiation on the Micro/Nano Scale Structure and Fission Product Distribution of TRISO Coated Particle Fuel Kernels from AGR Experiments

The Advanced Reactor Technologies (ART) Program at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) includes the Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) fuel development and qualification program that consists of fuel fabrication, experiment irradiations, post-irradiation examination (PIE) and safety testing to assess tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel performance during normal irradiation and under potential accident conditions. Advanced microscopy work on selected AGR-1 and AGR-2 unirradiated and irradiated fuel specimens is performed as part of the PIE effort. PIE work on fuel from the first experiment irradiation, AGR-1, began at INL in April 2010, and AGR-2 PIE began at INL in July 2014. This work scope includes University of Florida (UF) performing advanced electron microscopy examination and analysis using facilities at the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES), INL or UF’s electron microscopy facilities. Electron microscopic examination and analysis may include scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), selected area diffraction (SAD), electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), electron dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and atom probe tomography (APT) on the fuel kernels of TRISO-coated fuel particles. The electron microscopy lamellae will be provided by INL and will be available at CAES or Irradiated Materials Characterization Laboratory (IMCL).

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS↗

Reconstruction of Fission Product Distribution from Tomographic Scans in TRISO Fuel Graphitic Matrix and Nuclear Grade Graphites

An image reconstruction method was developed to rectify shortcomings of earlier methods that became apparent as destructively sampled data became available. This reconstruction method was applied to the tomographic gamma scans of nuclear graphite and graphitic matrix samples from AGR-3/4. There is generally agreement between profiles measured via destructive sampling of these rings and profiles from tomographic reconstruction.

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS↗

Material Architectures to Integrate Multiple Reactor Functions for Fission Batteries

It is necessary for Advanced Reactors to have highly advanced engineered material systems that can combine multiple functions to save weight and cost. Metamaterial structures can be used to achieve this function. Material properties that could feasibly be combined were identified and explored in the literature. They were then proposed for future studies gauging the effectiveness of these proposals.

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