One Point of View: Technology Transfer at Argonne National Laboratory

1990 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 9-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian R. Frost
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Argonne National Laboratory ◽  
Point Of View

Environmental cell studies of deformation and fracture

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 516-517
Author(s):  
H. K. Birnbaum ◽  
I. M. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
National Laboratory ◽  
Argonne National Laboratory ◽  
Damage Threshold ◽  
Chromatic Aberration ◽  
Good Choice ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Deformation And Fracture ◽  
Environmental Cell ◽  
Gas Molecules ◽  
The University

Studies of the effects of hydrogen environments on the deformation and fracture of fcc, bcc and hep metals and alloys have been carried out in a TEM environmental cell. The initial experiments were performed in the environmental cell of the HVEM facility at Argonne National Laboratory. More recently, a dedicated environmental cell facility has been constructed at the University of Illinois using a JEOL 4000EX and has been used for these studies. In the present paper we will describe the general design features of the JEOL environmental cell and some of the observations we have made on hydrogen effects on deformation and fracture.The JEOL environmental cell is designed to operate at 400 keV and below; in part because of the available accelerating voltage of the microscope and in part because the damage threshold of most materials is below 400 keV. The gas pressure at which chromatic aberration due to electron scattering from the gas molecules becomes excessive does not increase rapidly with with accelerating voltage making 400 keV a good choice from that point of view as well. A series of apertures were placed above and below the cell to control the pressures in various parts of the column.

scholarly journals Microstructure and Leaching Characteristics of a Technetium Containing Metal Waste Form

1999 ◽  
Vol 556 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. G. Johnson ◽  
D. D. Keiser ◽  
M. Noy ◽  
T. O'Holleran ◽  
S. M. Frank
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Argonne National Laboratory ◽  
Fission Products ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Waste Form ◽  
Nominal Composition ◽  
Spent Fuel ◽  
Waste Forms ◽  
Metal Waste

AbstractArgonne National Laboratory is developing an electrometallurgical treatment for spent fuel from the experimental breeder reactor II. A product of this treatment process is a metal waste form that incorporates the stainless steel cladding hulls, zirconium from the fuel and the fission products that are noble to the process, i.e., Tc, Ru, Pd, Rh, Ag. The nominal composition of this waste form is stainless steel/15 wt% zirconium/ 1–4 wt% noble metal fission products. The behavior of technetium is of particular importance from a disposal point of view for this waste form due to its long half life, 2.14E5 years, and its mobility in groundwater. To address these concerns a limited number of spiked metal waste forms were produced containing Tc. These surrogate waste forms were then studied using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and selected leaching tests.

Electron and ion irradiation-induced dissolution of mechanical twins in the intermetalic U3Si: An in situ HVEM study

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 652-653
Author(s):  
Charles W. Allen ◽  
Robert C. Birtcher
Keyword(s):  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Ion Irradiation ◽  
Ion Beam ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Argonne National Laboratory ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Mechanical Twinning ◽  
In Situ Experiments

The uranium silicides, including U3Si, are under study as candidate low enrichment nuclear fuels. Ion beam simulations of the in-reactor behavior of such materials are performed because a similar damage structure can be produced in hours by energetic heavy ions which requires years in actual reactor tests. This contribution treats one aspect of the microstructural behavior of U3Si under high energy electron irradiation and low dose energetic heavy ion irradiation and is based on in situ experiments, performed at the HVEM-Tandem User Facility at Argonne National Laboratory. This Facility interfaces a 2 MV Tandem ion accelerator and a 0.6 MV ion implanter to a 1.2 MeV AEI high voltage electron microscope, which allows a wide variety of in situ ion beam experiments to be performed with simultaneous irradiation and electron microscopy or diffraction.At elevated temperatures, U3Si exhibits the ordered AuCu3 structure. On cooling below 1058 K, the intermetallic transforms, evidently martensitically, to a body-centered tetragonal structure (alternatively, the structure may be described as face-centered tetragonal, which would be fcc except for a 1 pet tetragonal distortion). Mechanical twinning accompanies the transformation; however, diferences between electron diffraction patterns from twinned and non-twinned martensite plates could not be distinguished.

scholarly journals NEW STRUCTURES IN 178HF AND COULOMB EXCITATION OF ISOMERS

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 474-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.B. HAYES ◽  
D. CLINE ◽  
C. Y. WU ◽  
A.M. HURST ◽  
M.P. CARPENTER ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Ground State ◽  
Coulomb Excitation ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Argonne National Laboratory ◽  
Particle Detector ◽  
Ground State Band ◽  
Rotational Bands ◽  
Coincidence Data ◽  
State Band

A 985 MeV 178 Hf beam was Coulomb excited by a 208 Pb target at the ATLAS accelerator of Argonne National Laboratory. Gammasphere and the CHICO particle detector recorded particle-γ coincidence data. The aim was to populate and determine the mechanism of previously observed Coulomb excitation of the Kπ = 6+ (t1/2 = 77 ns ), 8- (4 s ) and 16+ (31 y ) isomer bands. New rotational bands were identified including an aligned band which appears to mix with the ground-state band (GSB) and the γ-vibrational band above ~ 12 ħ of angular momentum. Newly observed γ-decay transitions into the three isomer bands may elucidate the K-mixing which allows Coulomb excitation of these isomer bands, but direct decays from the GSB into the 16+ isomer band have not yet been confirmed.

scholarly journals Dissolution Testing of a Metallic Waste Form in Chloride Brine

2006 ◽  
Vol 985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn E. Janney
Keyword(s):  
National Laboratory ◽  
Bulk Composition ◽  
Argonne National Laboratory ◽  
Corrosion Products ◽  
Localized Corrosion ◽  
Waste Form ◽  
Ph Values ◽  
Surface Areas ◽  
Sample Edge ◽  
Static Immersion

AbstractArgonne National Laboratory has developed an electrometallurgical process for conditioning spent sodium-bonded metallic reactor fuel from the Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II). One waste stream from this process consists of a metal waste form (MWF) whose baseline composition is stainless steel alloyed with 15 wt% Zr (SS-15Zr) and whose microstructure is a eutectic intergrowth of iron solid solutions and Fe-Zr-Cr-Ni intermetallics. This paper reports scanning electron microscope (SEM) observations of corrosion products formed during static immersion tests in which coupons of surrogate MWF containing 10 wt% U (SS-15Zr-10U) were immersed in solutions with nominal pH values of 3 and 4 and 1000 ppm added chloride for 70 days at 50 °C. Although the majority of the surface areas of the coupons appear unchanged, linear areas with localized corrosion products apparently consisting of porous materials overlying corrosion-product-filled channels formed on both coupons, cross-cutting phase boundaries in the original eutectic microstructures. Many of the linear areas intersected the sample edge at notches present before the tests or followed linear flaws visible in pre-test images. Compositions of corrosion products differed significantly from the bulk composition, and the maximum observed concentration of U exceeded that reported in actinide-bearing phases in uncorroded surrogate MWF samples with comparable concentrations of U.

Synchrotron X-ray studies of metal-organic framework M2(2,5-dihydroxyterephthalate), M = (Mn, Co, Ni, Zn) (MOF74)

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 256-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Wong-Ng ◽  
J. A. Kaduk ◽  
H. Wu ◽  
M. Suchomel
Keyword(s):  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Metal Organic Framework ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Argonne National Laboratory ◽  
Lattice Parameter ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Metal Organic ◽  
Sorbent Materials ◽  
Diffraction Patterns ◽  
Unsaturated Metal Sites

M2(dhtp)·nH2O (M = Mn, Co, Ni, Zn; dhtp = 2,5-dihydroxyterephthalate), known as MOF74, is a family of excellent sorbent materials for CO2 that contains coordinatively unsaturated metal sites and a honeycomb-like structure featuring a broad one-dimensional channel. This paper describes the structural feature and provides reference X-ray powder diffraction patterns of these four isostructural compounds. The structures were determined using synchrotron diffraction data obtained at beam line 11-BM at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) in the Argonne National Laboratory. The samples were confirmed to be hexagonal R 3 (No. 148). From M = Mn, Co, Ni, to Zn, the lattice parameter a of MOF74 ranges from 26.131 73(4) Å to 26.5738(2) Å, c from 6.651 97(5) to 6.808 83(8) Å, and V ranges from 3948.08 Å3 to 4163.99 Å3, respectively. The four reference X-ray powder diffraction patterns have been submitted for inclusion in the Powder Diffraction File (PDF).

scholarly journals TRUEX Processing of Plutonium Analytical Solutions at Argonne National Laboratory

1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 303-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Chamberlain ◽  
Cliff Conner ◽  
Joseph C. Hutter ◽  
Ralph A. Leonard ◽  
David G. Wygmans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Solutions ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Argonne National Laboratory
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