公开(公告)号：US20240192123A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-13

申请号：US18062881

申请日：2022-12-07

Applicant: ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

Inventor： Jordan Robison ,  Aaron Robison ,  Timothy Head

IPC: G01N17/04 ,  G01N17/00

CPC classification number: G01N17/04 ,  G01N17/002

Abstract: A device for in-situ corrosion monitoring in a molten salt reactor system includes a mounting structure and a plurality of probes. Each probe of the plurality of probes may have a main portion and a thinned region that together define a sealed chamber with the mounting structure. Each thinned region of the plurality of probes may be configured to corrosively fail, when exposed to a corrosive environment, both: (i) before any main portion of the plurality of probes, and (ii) temporarily in series with the other thinned portions of the plurality of probes. The device may further include a plurality of sensing features corresponding to the plurality of probes, each sensing feature disposed in a respective sealed chamber of the plurality of probes. Each sensing feature may be configured to detect a breach of the respective sealed chamber caused by the corrosive failure of the thinned region.

公开(公告)号：US20250062042A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-20

申请号：US18449468

申请日：2023-08-14

Applicant: ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ,  GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ,  The Texas A&M University System ,  Board of Regents, The University of Texas System

Inventor： Derek Haas ,  Jordan Robison ,  Steven Biegalski ,  Timothy Head ,  Rusty Towell ,  Kevin Clarno ,  Bojan Petrovic ,  Pavel Tsvetkov ,  Jonathan Scherr ,  Mark Kimber

IPC: G21C1/32 ,  G21C7/30

Abstract: An integral molten salt nuclear reactor includes a drain tank section configured to hold a volume of fuel salt. The integral molten salt nuclear reactor further includes a reactor section configured to receive the volume of fuel salt from the drain tank and cause fission reactions that heats the molten salt. The integral molten salt nuclear reactor further includes a heat exchange section configured to receive a flow of the heated fuel salt from the reactor section and remove heat therefrom.