@inproceedings{33e099d11ef94822987d891769bd6a5d,
title = "Design of a laser shock system for a remote nuclear radiation environment",
abstract = "The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration Material Management and Minimization (M3) program is enabling the transformation of research and test reactors to Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) fuels using reactor safety analysis and new fuel designs. The M3 program has developed LEU based alternative fuels that will enable reactors to continue their missions while operating safely and cost effectively. A salient performance factor of the fuel plate is the bond strength of the fuel foil (including the Zr interlayer) to the Al substrate. The laser shock technique will be used to provide interface strength feedback for fabrication process development and to understand the effects of reactor irradiation. This paper focuses on modifying a laser shock system built for laboratory use. The resulting system designed for installation in a nuclear hot cell uses only optical fibers without polarization elements as the salient delivery and collection of signal light. The laser shock (LS) system based on fiber optics is more practical for the rigors and remote operation requirements in a nuclear hot cell. This paper will also discuss the bond strength results from round robin testing obtained in the laboratory comparing the LS laboratory and hot cell systems.",
author = "Smith, \{James A.\} and Marc Choquet and Daniel L{\'e}vesque",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Author(s).; 45th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, QNDE 2018 ; Conference date: 15-07-2018 Through 19-07-2018",
year = "2019",
month = may,
day = "8",
doi = "10.1063/1.5099792",
language = "English",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Inc.",
editor = "Simon Laflamme and Stephen Holland and Bond, \{Leonard J.\}",
booktitle = "45th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, Volume 38",
}