Nuclear
Browse all applications for nuclear science
CAMECA has a long success story in supporting key players in nuclear science and industry. Several of our product lines, including SIMS, EPMA, APT deliver insightful data for the development of innovative structural materials, fusion and fission research, for nuclear safeguards, radiological protection and radioactive waste management. We also offer shielded microanalytical systems ensuring a safe environment for manipulating and characterizing highly radioactive materials.
Nuclear
Helium Migration in Nuclear Reactors (SIMS)
In nuclear reactors, Helium migration and trapping may lead to swelling, hardening, drastic creep rupture, blistering… To ensure longevity of structural nuclear materials, it is thus of paramount importance to better understand helium diffusion mechanisms and to describe its distribution below the surface.
Nuclear
Nuclear Glass Alteration Mechanisms (SIMS)
The long-term behaviour of glasses used to confine nuclear waste is of prime interest to ensure their safe geological disposal. In order to understand glass alteration mechanisms, it is crucial to study the formation of altered layers (e.g. gel and phyllosilicates for silicate glasses) that develop in contact with acqueous solution. This requires elemental in-depth characterization as well as the use of isotopic tracers which is a powerful method to study the exchanges between the solution and the glass.
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