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Argonne opens registration for D&D training course
Registration is open for Argonne National Laboratory’s Facility Decommissioning Training Course, a four-day instruction designed for those responsible for the decontamination and decommissioning of nuclear facilities and who are looking to understand the full breadth and depth of the D&D processes.
The next session will be held July 16–19 in Santa Fe, N.M. Information on the course and how to register can be found here.
Yang-Il Jung, Hyun-Gil Kim, Dong-Won Lee, Yoon-Soo Lim, Seungyon Cho
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 72 | Number 3 | October 2017 | Pages 523-529
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1330610
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Tungsten was joined to ferritic-martensitic steel (FMS) for application in a plasma facing component. Zirconium foil was investigated as an interlayer material for the joining of W to FMS. Repeated hot isostatic pressing (HIP) was conducted for the fabrication of W/FMS joints. The first HIP was performed at 950°C under 100 MPa for 1.5 h (diffusion joining stage), and the second HIP was executed at 750°C under 70 MPa for 2 h (tempering stage). The Zr interlayer formed a sound interface between W and FMS with no observable pores and cracks. The joining strength of W/FMS measured by a shear test was about 54 MPa. Elemental diffusion was observed along the hetero-interfaces of W/Zr and Zr/FMS. At the W/Zr interface, a thin layer of W–Zr inter-phase was observed. At the Zr/FMS interface, no intermetallic compound was formed, however, fine Zr grains featuring body-centered tetragonal lattice structures were formed near the interface.