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Project Omega and INL to further investigate UNF recycling with ARPA-E award
Nuclear technology start-up Project Omega announced that it has been awarded a contract through the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to advance used nuclear fuel recycling. Project Omega said the award will be used to validate key components of its molten salt electrochemical recycling platform designed to process UNF, recover valuable isotopes, and reduce long-term waste management challenges.
Sohel Rana, Bahareh Badamchi, Binay Joshi, Joshua Daw, Pattrick Calderoni, James Smith (INL), Harish Subbaraman, Nirmala K. Kandadai (Boise State Univ)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 581-587
An optical fiber sensor in a nuclear environment is an appealing technology as optical sensors are immune to electromagnetic interference and they offer a simple way to carry sensing signal out of the harsh environment in the form of light. In this paper, we design a reflective long period grating (LPG) that can perform in a nuclear environment and show the effects of coating length and coverage on reflected spectrum for the first time.
