Photonic lab-on-a-chip, a versatile and powerful tool for R&D studies on spent fuel reprocessing
Résumé
The study and development of present and future processes for the recycling of spent nuclear fuels require many steps, from design in the laboratory to setting up on an industrial scale. Analysis and instrumentation are crucial in all of these steps. These developments are increasingly carried out on milli/microfluidic devices for scientific reasons (small-scale studies, control of phenomena, etc.) and to minimize costs, risks, and waste. The logic is the same for the chemical analyses associated with their follow-up and interpretation. Due to this, over the last few years, opto/microfluidic analysis devices adapted to the monitoring of different processes (dissolution, liquid/liquid extraction, precipitation, etc.) have been increasingly designed and
developed. This communication will review 5 years of photonic lab-on-a-chip (PhLoC) development and show how this technology (cf. Figure 1) can be a suitable and powerful tool to monitor several steps along the PUREX process (Plutonium Uranium Reduction Extraction).
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Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]Origine | Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s) |
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