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PG&E to dredge Diablo Canyon intake system
The owners of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant plan to dredge a massive buildup of shoaled sediment from its seawater intake cove.
Pacific Gas and Electric spokesperson Suzanne Hosn said, “The dredging project in the Diablo Canyon marina will remove approximately 70,000 cubic yards of sediment to prevent circumstances that could impact the power plant’s cooling system. Dredging will take place for the first time since operations began because of a rapid increase in sediment.”
B. Gámez, L. Gámez, M. J. Caturla, E. Martínez, E. del Río, J. M. Perlado
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 1 | July 2009 | Pages 314-317
Fusion Materials | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A8920
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The presence of impurities could affect the results observed in pure Ni. In particular, impurities could interact with self-interstitial atoms, which are highly mobile, effectively reducing their mobility. In this work we study the influence of the mobility of self-interstitials on He desorption. The nucleation of He-vacancy complexes is studied depending on the mobility of these self-interstitials in terms of He to vacancy content as well as concentration of these complexes.