A state-of-the-art experimental platform designed to investigate the safety-related behaviors of metallic fuels in sodium-cooled fast reactors under postulated severe accident conditions.
Operating in some capacity at Argonne National Laboratory since its inception, the facility serves as a research testbed with the capabilities to measure everything from bedrock to the stratosphere.
AML will assist the nuclear community in examining radioactive samples at the High-Energy X-ray Microscope (HEXM) and other beamlines at the Advanced Photon Source.
Argonne’s pressure drop experimental loop for investigation of core assemblies in advanced nuclear reactors (PELICAN) generates verification and validation data for modern reactor designs.