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ORNL, Rutherford Energy Ventures launch fusion partnership
Fusion Upscaled Leveraged Consortia for Rapid Acceleration (FULCRA) is the new public-private partnership between Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Rutherford Energy Ventures, a fusion consultancy company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. FULCRA intends to create shared fusion test bed infrastructure at ORNL to serve as a design and funding model for similar test facilities at other national laboratories.
Jean-Yves Colle, Philipp Pöml, Jacobus Boshoven, Rudy J. M. Konings
Nuclear Technology | Volume 211 | Number 5 | May 2025 | Pages 1103-1110
Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2377012
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The distribution of U and Pu of a mixed-oxide fuel sample is analyzed by Raman spectroscopy and electron probe microanalysis, with the goal of comparing the distribution maps from the two techniques. Qualitatively, the maps reveal the same features of Pu-rich agglomerates and the near Pu-free UO2 matrix, and the differences between the derived absolute concentrations are within 10%. Differences are likely due to a shift in the Raman signal originating from the local stoichiometry variation or self-irradiation damage.