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Can hydrogen be the transportation fuel in an otherwise nuclear economy?
Let’s face it: The global economy should be powered primarily by nuclear power. And it probably will by the end of this century, with a still-significant assist from renewables and hydro. Once nuclear systems are dominant, the costs come down to where gas is now; and when carbon emissions are reduced to a small portion of their present state, it will become obvious that most other sources are only good in niche settings. I mean, why use small modular reactors to load-follow when they can just produce that power instead of buffering it?
Fei Gao, Ram Devanathan, William J. Weber
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 574-578
Fusion Materials | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963298
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The primary damage by displacement cascades in 3C-SiC at 300 K has been studied by molecular dynamics (MD). A large number of cascades, with energies from 0.2 to 50 keV, have been simulated in order to investigate the effects of energy in defect production and clustering. The surviving defects are dominated by C interstitials and vacancies. The number of Frenkel pairs increases with increasing cascade energy, but the efficiency of their production declines with increasing energy in a similar fashion to that found in metals. Although the number of antisite defects is smaller than that of Frenkel pairs, their production also increases with increasing cascade energy. Most surviving defects are single interstitials and vacancies, and the tendency of interstitials to form clusters is very week. The size of the interstitial clusters is very small, which shows significantly different behavior than obtained by MD simulations in metals. The current results provide the statistics of the primary damage states in SiC as a function of primary knock-on energy, which are important in upscaling these results to model behavior over longer time and length scales.