Ceramic shielding apparatus
    1.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11569054B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-31

    申请号:US17679209

    申请日:2022-02-24

    申请人: Han Sung Lee

    发明人: Han Sung Lee

    摘要: Disclosed is a ceramic shielding apparatus including at least one shield made of a ceramic material and provided inside or outside an X-ray tube to shield radiation; and supports configured to support the shield. According to such a configuration, disadvantages of conventional shielding materials such as lead can be addressed, so that a shield apparatus having excellent shielding properties while being harmless to the human body can be provided.

    FULLY CERAMIC ENCAPSULATED RADIOACTIVE HEAT SOURCE

    公开(公告)号:US20230023052A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-26

    申请号:US17887083

    申请日:2022-08-12

    IPC分类号: G21H1/10 G21F1/06 G21G4/06

    摘要: A chargeable atomic battery (CAB), such as a fully ceramic encapsulated radioactive heat source, includes a plurality of CAB units and a CAB housing to hold the plurality of CAB units. Each of the CAB units are formed of a precursor compact including precursor material particles embedded inside an encapsulation material. The precursor material particles include a precursor kernel formed of a precursor material that is initially manufactured in a stable state or an unstable state and convertible into an activated material that is an activated state via irradiation by a particle radiation source. The precursor material particles can include one or more encapsulation coatings surrounding the precursor kernel. The precursor material can include Neptunium-237 and the activated material can include Plutonium-238. A radioisotope thermoelectric generator can include thermoelectrics coupled to the CAB units to convert radioactive emissions of the activated material into electrical power.

    MITIGATING NUCLEAR FUEL DAMAGE: NUCLEAR REACTOR AND/OR INCIDENT OR ACCIDENT

    公开(公告)号:US20210366625A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-25

    申请号:US16499525

    申请日:2018-10-03

    发明人: Robert G. Abboud

    摘要: Composition, manufactures, and processes of making and using them, consisting essentially of a neutron absorbent, having a neutron absorption cross section greater than or equal to Boron comprising at least 19.7% of Boron-10 isotope, and a thermal conductor having a thermal conductivity of at least 10% of water thermal conductivity at 100 degrees C. at sea level, combined such that the particles have a density of at least 0.9982 g/mL and not more than 2.0 g/ml. The composition can be located for release responsive to a loss of normal heat sink event and/or a loss of normal coolant event in a quantity sufficient, to palliate the loss of the normal heat sink event and/or the loss of normal coolant event.

    FORMATION OF BORON CARBIDE NANOPARTICLES FROM A BORON ALKOXIDE AND A POLYVINYL ALCOHOL

    公开(公告)号:US20180065857A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-08

    申请号:US15692870

    申请日:2017-08-31

    IPC分类号: C01B32/991 B01J13/00 G21F1/06

    摘要: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of boron carbide nanoparticles, characterized in that it comprises at least the stages consisting in: (i) interacting boric acid, boron oxide B2O3 or a boric acid ester of B(OR)3 type, with R, which are identical or different, representing C1-4-alkyl groups, with 1 to 2 molar equivalents of at least one C2 to C4 polyol, under conditions favorable to the formation of a boron alkoxide powder; (ii) interacting, in an aqueous medium, the boron alkoxide powder obtained on conclusion of stage (i) with an effective amount of one or more completely hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohols, with a molar mass of between 10 000 and 80 000 g.mol−1, under conditions favorable to the formation of a crosslinked PVA gel, and (iii) carrying out an oxidizing pyrolysis of the crosslinked gel formed on conclusion of the preceding stage (ii), under conditions favorable to the formation of the CB4 nanoparticles.

    Nanostructured glass ceramic neutron shield for down-hole thermal neutron porosity measurement tools
    10.
    发明授权
    Nanostructured glass ceramic neutron shield for down-hole thermal neutron porosity measurement tools 有权
    用于井下热中子孔隙度测量工具的纳米结构玻璃陶瓷中子屏蔽

    公开(公告)号:US09575207B1

    公开(公告)日:2017-02-21

    申请号:US15062373

    申请日:2016-03-07

    摘要: An apparatus for providing a signal indicative of a property of an earth formation includes: a carrier conveyable through a borehole; a neutron source disposed on the carrier and configured to emit neutrons into the earth formation; a radiation detector disposed on the carrier and configured to detect radiation from the earth formation due to interaction of emitted neutrons with the earth formation and to provide the signal indicative of the property; and a neutron shield configured to shield the radiation detector from emitted neutrons that did not interact with the earth formation; wherein the radiation detector shield includes a glass ceramic material having a plurality of nano-crystallites, each nano-crystallite in the plurality having a periodic crystal structure with a diameter or dimension that is less than 1000 nm that includes Li and/or Boron and a rare-earth element that have positions in the periodic crystal structure of each nano-crystallite.

    摘要翻译: 用于提供指示地球物理特性的信号的装置包括:可通过钻孔传送的载体; 中子源,设置在载体上并且构造成将中子发射到地层中; 放射线检测器,设置在所述载体上并且被配置为检测由于发射的中子与地球相互作用而产生的地球的辐射并且提供指示所述性质的信号; 以及中子屏蔽,被配置为屏蔽辐射探测器与未与地层相互作用的发射中子; 其中所述辐射检测器屏蔽包括具有多个纳米微晶的玻璃陶瓷材料,其中每个纳米微晶具有包括Li和/或硼的直径或尺寸小于1000nm的周期性晶体结构,和 在每个纳米微晶的周期性晶体结构中具有位置的稀土元素。