Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC

Roderick E Fuentes

Joseph A Teprovich, Jr

Hector R Colon-Mercado

Brenda L Garcia-Diaz

Luke C Olson

David W Babineau

Lindsay T Sexton

José Cortes-Concepción

Ricardo D Torres

Electrochemical cells and methods are described that can be utilized for the recovery of tritium directly from a molten lithium metal solution without the need for a separation or concentration step prior to the electrolytic recovery process. The methods and systems utilize an ion conducting electrolyte that conducts either lithium ion or tritide ion across the electrochemical cell.

Recovery of tritium from molten lithium blanket

Photonic crystal scintillators and their methods of manufacture are provided. Exemplary methods of manufacture include using a highly-ordered porous anodic alumina membrane as a pattern transfer mask for either the etching of underlying material or for the deposition of additional material onto the surface of a scintillator. Exemplary detectors utilizing such photonic crystal scintillators are also provided.

Photonic crystal scintillators and methods of manufacture

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Aiken, SC, United States of America

Roderick E Fuentes