STA for Radioactive Sample
Description
Special field of application: Nuclear materials
Since the 1950s nuclear energy is the worldwide most important energy source around the world. With their advantage of clean and cheap power supply, core reactors were undergoing a continuous global improvement during the last 50 years. Meanwhile the reactors of the 4th generation such as very high temperature reactors (VHTR) or sodium cooled fast reactors (SFR) as well as the unique molten salt reactor (MSR) are currently under development and will be the future for nuclear energy.
Due to the research that is done in that field, there is a need of analytical equipment and especially instruments for thermal analysis. Of course, these special applications and safety requirements need a lot of modifications of the standard devices, that makes Linseis become the worldwide leader in thermal analysis of nuclear materials as we are the most flexible and most experienced player on that market.
Thermal analysis of nuclear materials
In case of any of the mentioned dangers, it gets tricky to operate the system and also to do service and maintenance. To avoid such problems, the following points must be solved:
- The system must be able to be controlled from a safe place (other room, glovebox, hood)
- All critical parts that have to be accessed for maintenance must be accessible
- Samples must be placed in the system and removed from the system somehow
- All components that get in touch with corrosive substances must be able to withstand them
