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Illinois legislature lifts ban on nuclear energy, funds clean energy
The Illinois General Assembly passed a clean energy bill on October 30 that would, in part, lift a 30-year moratorium on new nuclear energy in the state and create incentives for more energy storage.
G.E. Lucas, G.R. Odette, J.W. Sheckherd, M.R. Krishnadev
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 728-733
Fusion Materials—Radiation Effects and Activation | Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24827
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Charpy impact specimens, one third the size of standard specimens in all dimensions have been tested for a variety of steels and the data have been compared to standard specimen data. The absorbed energy curves are qualitatively similar for both specimen types, and quantitative evaluations of dynamic yield strength and cleavage fracture stress are similar as well. However, differences in constraint between standard and subsized specimens must be accounted for, and these differences are influenced by the flow behavior of the test material.
