Irradiation Testing of Sensors - ASI Program Review 2022

S&T Accomplishment Report · Mon Oct 24 04:00:00 EDT 2022

OSTI ID:1906502

Palmer, Joe ^[1]

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1. Idaho National Laboratory

This is a powerpoint presentation for the annual Advanced Sensors and Instrumentation (ASI) program webinar. The following is a summary of the presentation. Advanced instrumentation enables testing of nuclear fuels and materials in support of the US advanced nuclear technology industry. A number of promising sensor technologies are in the pipeline. The early part of sensor development can be done outside of the reactor environment, but full technical readiness requires experience gained from in-core performance testing. Customers usually have only one shot to conduct their irradiation experiments. Because of the high costs test sponsors are frequently reluctant to incorporate unproven technologies in reactor experiments. Therefore, it is vital to demonstrate newly-developed sensors in operational conditions, prior to incorporating them into long-term high-value experiments. Successful completion of these activities will create new monitoring capabilities in high-power test reactors (such as ATR) as well as specialty reactors such as TREAT.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-05ID14517
• OSTI ID: 1906502
• Report Number(s): INL/MIS-22-69828-Rev000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Irradiation Testing
Nuclear sensors