Nuclear Materials Lab
The primary objectives of this lab are to perform material property measurements and sample preparation.
Netzsch 449 Jupiter F1 Simultaneous Thermal Analyzer
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With SiC furnace (up to 1600°C)
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Water Vapour Furnace (up to 1250°C)
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Quadropole Mass spectrometer 403 Aëolos Quadro
Netzsch 509 Jupiter F3 Simultaneous
Thermal Analyzer
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With a graphite furnace (up to 2000°C)​
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Carbolite Tube Furnace
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Up to 1600°C
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Oxidising, inert or reducing conditions
MBraun Inert Atmosphere Glovebox
Fumehood
High Performance Computing Workstation
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Siemens NX
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Siemens STAR CCM
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24 cores (48 threads) and 256 GB of RAM
Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer 505 Aëolos
Actinide Lab
The primary objective of this lab is to perform measurements on actinides. Located in the McMaster High Level Laboratory Facility.
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS)
The Actinide Lab additionally features two fumehoods and two gloveboxes.
