Radioactive Materials Beamline BL13SSW at SSRF

The Radioactive Materials Beamline (BL13SSW) of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) phase-II project is a new beamline aimed at meeting research demands in fields involving radioactive materials, such as fundamental radiochemistry and nuclear waste disposal. Advanced experimental methods have been developed based on a wiggler source with a wide tunable energy range of 5–50 keV, including high-resolution X-ray diffraction (HR-XRD), high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy (HR-XES), and high-resolution X-ray absorption spectroscopy (HR-XAS). It can also provide routine XRD, two dimensional XRD, pair distribution function (PDF), X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and microbeam characterization. A radioactive sample experimental environment, including sample radiation detection and monitoring, a storage room, and a ventilation system was built along with the beamline. This is the first comprehensive synchrotron radiation beamline in China dedicated to research on radioactive materials.