scholarly journals Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility (ATR NSUF) Monthly Report November 2014

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renae Soelberg
Keyword(s):  
Monthly Report ◽  
User Facility ◽  
Test Reactor

New Sensors for In-Pile Temperature Measurement at the Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility

2011 ◽  
Vol 175 (3) ◽  
pp. 681-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Rempe ◽  
D. L. Knudson ◽  
J. E. Daw ◽  
K. G. Condie ◽  
S. Curtis Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Measurement ◽  
User Facility ◽  
Test Reactor ◽  
New Sensors

scholarly journals Operational Philosophy for the Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Benson ◽  
J. Cole ◽  
J. Jackson ◽  
F. Marshall ◽  
D. Ogden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Facility ◽  
Test Reactor

scholarly journals Advanced Test Reactor: A National Scientific User Facility

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford J. Stanley ◽  
Frances M. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Neutron Flux ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Reactor Core ◽  
Nuclear Research ◽  
Reactor Power ◽  
Department Of Energy ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
Test Environment ◽  
User Facility ◽  
Test Reactor

This presentation and associated paper provides an overview of the research and irradiation capabilities of the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) located at the U.S. Department of Energy Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The ATR which has been designated by DOE as a National Scientific User Facility (NSUF) is operated by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC. This paper will describe the ATR and discuss the research opportunities for university (faculty and students) and industry researchers to use this unique facility for nuclear fuels and materials experiments in support of advanced reactor development and life extension issues for currently operating nuclear reactors. The ATR is a pressurized, light-water moderated and cooled, beryllium-reflected nuclear research reactor with a maximum operating power of 250 MWth. The unique serpentine configuration (Fig. 1) of the fuel elements creates five main reactor power lobes (regions) and nine flux traps. In addition to these nine flux traps there are 68 additional irradiation positions in the reactor core reflector tank. There are also 34 low-flux irradiation positions in the irradiation tanks outside the core reflector tank. The ATR is designed to provide a test environment for the evaluation of the effects of intense radiation (neutron and gamma). Due to the unique serpentine core design each of the five lobes can be operated at different powers and controlled independently. Options exist for the individual test trains and assemblies to be either cooled by the ATR coolant (i.e., exposed to ATR coolant flow rates, pressures, temperatures, and neutron flux) or to be installed in their own independent test loops where such parameters as temperature, pressure, flow rate, neutron flux, and chemistry can be controlled per experimenter specifications. The full-power maximum thermal neutron flux is ∼1.0 x1015 n/cm2-sec with a maximum fast flux of ∼5.0 x1014 n/cm2-sec. The Advanced Test Reactor, now a National Scientific User Facility, is a versatile tool in which a variety of nuclear reactor, nuclear physics, reactor fuel, and structural material irradiation experiments can be conducted. The cumulative effects of years of irradiation in a normal power reactor can be duplicated in a few weeks or months in the ATR due to its unique design, power density, and operating flexibility.

scholarly journals New Sensors for the Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility

2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 2653-2661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy L. Rempe ◽  
Darrell L. Knudson ◽  
Keith G. Condie ◽  
Joshua E. Daw ◽  
Heng Ban ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Facility ◽  
Test Reactor ◽  
New Sensors

Plug-in scripts for EFTEM automation

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 546-547
Author(s):  
N. D. Evans ◽  
M. K. Kundmann
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Oak Ridge ◽  
Multiple User ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Short Period ◽  
User Facility ◽  
Instrument Control ◽  
And Control ◽  
Research Equipment

Post-column energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy (EFTEM) is inherently challenging as it requires the researcher to setup, align, and control both the microscope and the energy-filter. The software behind an EFTEM system is therefore critical to efficient, day-to-day application of this technique. This is particularly the case in a multiple-user environment such as at the Shared Research Equipment (SHaRE) User Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Here, visiting researchers, who may oe unfamiliar with the details of EFTEM, need to accomplish as much as possible in a relatively short period of time.We describe here our work in extending the base software of a commercially available EFTEM system in order to automate and streamline particular EFTEM tasks. The EFTEM system used is a Philips CM30 fitted with a Gatan Imaging Filter (GIF). The base software supplied with this system consists primarily of two Macintosh programs and a collection of add-ons (plug-ins) which provide instrument control, imaging, and data analysis facilities needed to perform EFTEM.

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