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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.
Motonori Komura, Kaori Kamata, Tomokazu Iyoda, Keiji Nagai
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 2 | March-April 2013 | Pages 257-264
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-A16347
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Highly ordered nanopore arrays were successfully fabricated using poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and polymethacrylate with azobenzene mesogen in side chains [PMA(Az)] block copolymer film based on irradiation of 172-nm vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light. The block copolymer forms a highly ordered microphase-separated film with perpendicularly oriented PEO cylinders just by thermal annealing through a self-assembling process. We found that the etching rate of the PEO homopolymer was much higher than that of the PMA(Az) homopolymer at a chamber pressure of 102 Pa of atmosphere under VUV irradiation. The etching rate of the PEO component in the two systems of microphase separation and macrophase separation of the homopolymer blend crucially depended on the feature size of phase separation. In the PEO selective etching process of the block copolymer film, the water-contact angle of the film dramatically increased due to elimination of hydrophilic PEO. The resulting nanopore array film will be useful for low-density target materials.