| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Spectroscopic Methods and Analysis for Nuclear Energy Related Materials
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| Presentation Title |
Nuclear Materials Research at the Synchrotron |
| Author(s) |
Bruce Ravel |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Bruce Ravel |
| Abstract Scope |
The Beamline for Materials Measurement (BMM) is an X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II. BMM is part of a suite of spectroscopy beamlines built and operated by the Materials Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In recent years, nuclear materials research in a variety of forms has played a growing role in the scientific user program at BMM, with experiments in a wide variety of fields including actinide, lanthanide and technetium separation chemistry; materials for fuel rod cladding; molten salt corrosion chemistry; uranium processing; and uranium in natural systems. Responding to this demand, new beamline instrumentation has been developed to advance XAS measurement on nuclear materials at BMM in a safe environment. In this talk, I present an overview of the capabilities at BMM and show examples of nuclear materials research conducted at the beamline. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Characterization, Nuclear Materials, Other |