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Aerosol Lab (AL)
The Aerosol Lab (AL) houses equipment to measure
and record the physical parameters necessary to
characterize the formation and transport of
aerosols... [more] |
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Computer Facilities (CF)
State-of-the-art
equipment provided to in-house staff and collaborating
scientists. We have a Beowulf cluster (3 control nodes
and 105 computer nodes) as an advanced computational
platform for performing a variety of engineering
analyses. We also use facilities outside the Division
such as Jazz, a terascale (10E12 calculations per
second) Linux computing cluster with 350 nodes, and
the CAVE, one of the four sophisticated automatic
virtual environment systems in existence... [more] |
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Engineering Development Laboratory (EDL)
The Engineering Development Laboratory (EDL)
facilities are used to obtain information on the
behavior of molten nuclear fuel, both in-reactor
pressure vessel and ex-vessel... [more] |
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Environmentally Assisted Cracking (EAC) Laboratory
Four
autoclave systems used to evaluate the resistance of
nuclear reactor structural materials environmentally
assisted cracking in simulated LWR coolant
environments... [more] |
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High Temperature Corrosion Test
Facilities and High Pressure Test Facilities for Metal
Dusting
Six
corrosion test facilities and two thermogravimetric
systems for conducting corrosion tests in complex
mixed gas environments, in steam and in the presence
of deposits, and five facilities for metal dusting
degradation... [more] |
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Irradiated Materials Laboratory
(IML)
Used to conduct research on the behavior of
commercial nuclear reactor materials, including
fuel cladding, pressure vessel steels, and other
in-reactor components. The four beta-gamma hot
cells and the glove boxes are used to determine
mechanical properties of these materials and
degradation due to long-time operation in
corrosive and irradiation environments. Loss-of
coolant accident environment is also simulated to
allow determination of post-quench ductility... [more] |
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Laser Applications Laboratory (LAL)
The Laser Applications Laboratory (LAL)
houses two high-power laser systems, complete with
diagnostics for materials-processing functions – a 6
kW CO2 laser and a 1.6 kW pulsed Nd:YAG laser... [more] |
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Non-destructive Evaluation (NDE) and
Testing Facilities
The Non-destructive Evaluation (NDE) and Testing
Facilities contain state-of-the-art NDE laboratories
including microwave/millimeter wave,
acoustic/ultrasonic, X-ray, thermal imaging, optics,
and eddy current for health monitoring of materials
and components used in aerospace, defense, and power
generation (fossil and nuclear) industries as well as
for medical and scientific research... [more] |
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Prototype Cathode Processor (PCP)
The Prototype Cathode Processor (PCP) is a
high-temperature vacuum furnace capable of retorting
volatile components of the charge material and
producing a consolidated ingot (used primarily for
research on spent nuclear fuel processing)... [more]
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Robotics Laboratory (RL)
The Robotics Laboratory (RL)
houses various remote manipulator systems, including
the Dual Arm Work Platform, to support enhancements
to teleoperation of remote systems for nuclear
applications... [more] |
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Sodium Plugging Test Loop
This experimental setup is part of the Global Nuclear
Energy Partnership (GNEP) work being conducted at
Argonne on sodium components testing for the Advanced
Burner Reactor (ABR) plant design... [more]
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Sodium Reactor Experimental Test Facility (SRETF)
The Sodium Reactor Experimental Test Facility (SRETF)
is a fully instrumented facility for conducting and
observing reaction experiments between moist gases,
steam and alkali metals... [more]
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Steam Generator Tube Integrity
Facilities
The
facilities include the High Temperature Blowdown
Facility, the Room Temperature High Pressure Facility,
the Tube/Tube-sheet Severe Accident Leakage Facility,
and the Model Boiler Facility... [more]
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Supercritical CO2 Experiment Loop
The supercritical CO2 experimental loop is being used
to test heat transfer and flow in an advanced design
power conversion system which uses carbon dioxide
instead of water to remove heat from the reactor
sodium coolant... [more]
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Transmission Electron Microscope and Scanning Electron
Microscopes
The research activities of the Corrosion and Mechanics
of Materials Section are supported by complete
metallography/sample preparation rooms equipped with
several optical and electron microscopes: a
Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) and two Scanning
Electron Microscopes (SEMs)... [more]
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