History of Pu-238 Production Restart Efforts at Idaho National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Andrew Zillmer; Richard Howard; David Chandler; Adam Parkison

doi:10.1109/TNS.2024.3497876

History of Pu-238 Production Restart Efforts at Idaho National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Andrew Zillmer, Richard Howard, David Chandler, Adam Parkison

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Abstract

In the early 2010s, efforts to restart production in the U.S. of plutonium-238 heat source (HSPu) material for NASA deep space missions were initiated. Processes, procedures, hardware, and chemical separations were developed and implemented to enable the production of heat source material at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Idaho National Laboratory (INL). This review provides an overview of the timeline and efforts associated with the restart of production, as well as upcoming efforts to increase production.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2536-2544
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume	71
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2024.3497876
State	Published - 2024

Funding

This work was funded by the NASA Interagency Agreement # NNH19OB05A and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 and DE-AC07-05ID14517.

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Isotopes
nuclear reactors
plutonium

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