RADIATION MITIGATED ARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME

• Main Authors: SCAEFFER JON CONRAD, POPE STEPHEN GERARD
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 18.07.2013
• Subjects: ADHESIVES; AIR INTAKES FOR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; BLASTING; CHEMICAL PAINT OR INK REMOVERS; CHEMISTRY; COATING COMPOSITIONS, e.g. PAINTS, VARNISHES ORLACQUERS; COMBUSTION ENGINES; CONTROLLING FUEL SUPPLY IN AIR-BREATHING JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; CORRECTING FLUIDS; DECONTAMINATION ARRANGEMENTS THEREFOR; DYES; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; FILLING PASTES; GAS-TURBINE PLANTS; HEATING; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS; INKS; LAYERED PRODUCTS; LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT ORNON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM; LIGHTING; MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; METALLURGY; MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS; MISCELLANEOUS COMPOSITIONS; NATURAL RESINS; NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAMTURBINES; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PAINTS; PASTES OR SOLIDS FOR COLOURING OR PRINTING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; POLISHES; PROTECTION AGAINST X-RADIATION, GAMMA RADIATION, CORPUSCULARRADIATION OR PARTICLE BOMBARDMENT; STEAM ENGINES; TRANSPORTING; TREATING RADIOACTIVELY CONTAMINATED MATERIAL; USE OF MATERIALS THEREFOR; WEAPONS; WOODSTAINS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide articles and methods for making the articles that mitigate radiation emitted from radioactive elements present in a substrate, thermal barrier coatings disposed on the substrate, and other ceramic materials.SOLUTION: Articles comprises: a substrate 110; a thermal barrier coating 120 disposed on the substrate, the thermal barrier coating comprising a radioactive element 130, the radioactive element having a base radiation emission; and a radiation inhibitor 140 disposed in/on the thermal barrier coating. The thermal barrier coating having the radiation inhibitor has a mitigated radiation emission, wherein the mitigated radiation emission is lower than a base radiation emission.