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Securing the advanced reactor fleet
Physical protection accounts for a significant portion of a nuclear power plant’s operational costs. As the U.S. moves toward smaller and safer advanced reactors, similar protection strategies could prove cost prohibitive. For tomorrow’s small modular reactors and microreactors, security costs must remain appropriate to the size of the reactor for economical operation.
H. Xu, K. P. Youngblood, H. Huang, J. J. Wu, K. A. Moreno, A. Nikroo, S. J. Shin, Y. M. Wang, A. V. Hamza
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 2 | March-April 2013 | Pages 202-207
Technical Paper | Selected papers from 20th Target Fabrication Meeting, May 20-24, 2012, Santa Fe, NM, Guest Editor: Robert C. Cook | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-TFM20-16
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The point design of beryllium capsules includes three Cu-doped layers in a 160-m-thick beryllium shell to achieve the desired X-ray absorption profile. The beryllium capsules were deposited on glow discharge polymer mandrels using a magnetron sputtering process. Cu diffusion during pyrolysis to remove the mandrels after coating has caused nonuniform distribution of Cu along the azimuthal direction due to inhomogeneous diffusion. This nonuniformity along the azimuthal direction could lead to Rayleigh-Taylor instability during capsule implosion. One of the methods to solve this issue is to incorporate a beryllium oxide diffusion barrier layer at the beryllium-Cu-doped-beryllium layer interfaces. In situ and ex situ beryllium oxide layers have proved to be effective in stopping Cu diffusion. This paper will focus on the approaches we have developed to characterize the in situ and ex situ oxide barrier layer thickness by using a combination of Auger electron spectroscopy profiles and Rutherford backscattering spectrometry measurements.