The test production of a simulated nuclear fuel, possible to use as a calibration standard was donethru dissolving the preferred dopant-metals in a nitric-salt into weak acid. This solution wasmixed with dissolved uranium-salt to aimed concentration. This was precipitated by rising pHforming metallic-hydroxide.The precipitated salt was dried in an reduction gas, pressed to pellets and sintered in oven. Thequality of the pellets and its content was evaluated thru comparing theoretical and measureddensity, ICP-MS for which ground elements and which concentration of these forming thepellets. XRD was used to evaluate formed associated ground-elements and the lattice parameters.Finally, SEM was used to evaluate how homogenous the distribution of the doped elementsturned out.There are still a variety of tests yet to perform in order to create a high quality calibrationstandard. Our preparation of dissolved metallic salts will hopefully be usable for any furtherexperimentalist in this field. The single-doped calibration-standards are aimed to be used byStudsvik to calibrate their Lazer Ablation Inductivity coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometryinstrument.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-508900 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Lundell, Isak, Ekman, Sven |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Materialteori, Kemi och kemiteknik, Chalmers tekniska högskola, Kemi och kemiteknik, Chalmers tekniska högskola |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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