Phoenix LLC

Shine Technologies, LLC

Arne V Kobernik

Ross F Radel

Tye Travis Gribb

Evan R Sengbusch

Preston J Barrows

Logan D Campbell

Jin W Lee

Mark Thomas

Gabriel Becerra

Chris Seyfert

Michael Taylor

Carl Sherven

Casey Lamers

Christopher M Seyfert

Brandon A Jackson

Kevin D Meaney

Joseph D Sherman

Thomas C Bonde

Daniel J Swanson

Eric D Risley

Eli C Moll

Jake Hecla

Eli R Moll

Provided herein are articles of manufacture, systems, and methods employing a gas-deflector plate in low to ultra-high vacuum systems that use differential pumping (e.g., gas-target particle accelerators, mass spectrometers, and windowless delivery ports). In certain embodiments, the gas-deflector plate is configured to be positioned between higher and lower pressure regions in a pressurized system, wherein the gas-deflector plate has a channel therethrough shaped and/or angled such that jetting gas moving through the channel enters the lower pressure region at an angle offset from the vertical axis of the gas-deflector plate and/or the channel. In other embodiments, a jet-deflector component is employed such that the jetting gas strikes such jet-deflector component and is re-directed in another direction.

Gas jet deflection in pressurized systems

Provided herein are high energy ion beam generator systems and methods that provide low cost, high performance, robust, consistent, uniform, low gas consumption and high current/high-moderate voltage generation of neutrons and protons. Such systems and methods find use for the commercial-scale generation of neutrons and protons for a wide variety of research, medical, security, and industrial processes.

High power ion beam generator systems and methods

A system and method for performing active scanning on a nuclear fuel rod are provided. The system includes an electrically-driven neutron generator including an ion source, an accelerator, and a target; a moderator surrounding the neutron generator and configured to moderate neutrons generated by the neutron generator; a fuel rod channel disposed within the moderator, the fuel rod channel configured to receive a nuclear fuel rod and subject the nuclear fuel rod to a predetermined neutron flux; and a plurality of radiation detectors. When the nuclear fuel rod is subjected to the predetermined neutron flux, neutrons induce a secondary radiation of prompt and delayed gamma emissions, neutron emission, or a combination thereof that are detected by the plurality of radiation detectors to determine an amount of fissile material in the nuclear fuel rod and a spatial distribution of the fissile material along a length of the nuclear fuel rod.

System and method for performing active scanning of a nuclear fuel rod

A negative ion source includes a plasma chamber, a microwave source, a negative ion converter, a magnetic filter and a beam formation mechanism. The plasma chamber contains gas to be ionized. The microwave source transmits microwaves to the plasma chamber to ionize the gas into atomic species including hyperthermal neutral atoms. The negative ion converter converts the hyperthermal neutral atoms to negative ions. The magnetic filter reduces a temperature of an electron density provided between the plasma chamber and the negative ion converter. The beam formation mechanism extract the negative ions.

High reliability, long lifetime, negative ion source

The present application relates generally to the field of performing active scanning of a nuclear fuel rod to identify variations in enrichment along a length of the fuel rod. More specifically, the present application relates to systems and methods for performing active scanning of a nuclear fuel rod.

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Monona, WI, United States of America

Arne V Kobernik