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Texas A&M welcomes uranium conversion research
The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) has signed a research agreement with Quantum Leap Energy (QLE) “to advance and de-risk the commercial production of high-purity uranium hexafluoride (UF6).”
QLE is an Austin, Texas–based subsidiary of ASP Isotopes (ASPI), which is developing an isotope enrichment platform for applications in nuclear energy, nuclear medicine, and semiconductors. QLE specializes in the uranium conversion step of the nuclear fuel cycle—the conversion of yellowcake uranium concentrate (U3O8) into UF6 prior to enrichment.
Chris Keckler, Massimiliano Fratoni, Ehud Greenspan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 194 | Number 11 | November 2020 | Pages 1079-1088
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2020.1715688
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This study quantifies the uncertainty in the calculated displacements per atom (DPA) value due to uncertainties in the neutron spectrum resulting from cross-section data uncertainty. Using generalized perturbation theory, covariance matrices, and fine-group DPA cross sections, a method for propagating nuclear data uncertainties through to the calculation of DPA is outlined. This method is then implemented for the case of a typical sodium-cooled breed-and-burn core. The majority of uncertainties in accumulated DPA were found to come from the inelastic scattering cross section for 238U. Overall the uncertainty in accumulated DPA is found to be roughly 2% of the total value.