| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2023 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Seaborg Institutes: Emerging Topics in Actinide Materials and Science
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| Presentation Title |
Melting Temperature Method for Determining the Concentration of Pu-metal in PuCl3 Salt |
| Author(s) |
Toni Karlsson, Cynthia Adkins |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Toni Karlsson |
| Abstract Scope |
A sodium-chloride plutonium-trichloride binary salt system has been fabricated for thermophysical property investigations with the goal of informing molten salt reactor fuel development. A simultaneous thermal analyzer (STA) was deployed to investigate purity of the plutonium-trichloride feedstock utilized during binary salt fabrication. Subsequently, the STA was used to develop a phase diagram for the sodium-chloride plutonium-trichloride salt. Six different molar ratio salt samples were measured to develop the phase diagram. The phase diagram results were compared with the limited available literature values for this binary salt system. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Nuclear Materials, High-Temperature Materials, Characterization |