NEUP CINR-21-24335: Deployment and In-Pile Test of an Instrument for Real-Time Monitoring Thermal Conductivity Evolution of Nuclear Fuels

The objective of this proposed project is to deploy a recently developed fiber-optic-based instrument in the MIT Research Reactor (MITR) to perform in-pile thermal conductivity measurements of fuels and materials. The design of this instrument is based on the photothermal radiometry (PTR). In this method, thermal conductivity is measured through locally heating the sample surface and measuring the transient temperature gradient by collecting infrared (IR) black-body radiation.

Additional Info

Field	Value
Awarded Institution	Idaho National Laboratory
PI	Zilong Hua