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Nicholas Tsoulfanidis—ANS member since 1969
As an undergraduate I studied physics at the University of Athens. I entered the university in 1955 after successfully passing a national exam (came up fourth in a field of about 700 candidates). Upon graduation and finishing my mandatory two-year military service, the plan was to teach physics either in a public high school or as a tutor for a private for-profit institution, preparing high school students for the national exam.
Seichi Sato, Hirotaka Furuya, Yuji Nishino, Masayasu Sugisaki
Nuclear Technology | Volume 70 | Number 2 | August 1985 | Pages 235-242
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33647
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Thermal conductivity of simulated high-level radioactive waste glass was measured by a radial heat flow technique at temperatures from 300 to 1250 K, using two types of cell. Below glass transition temperature Tg (720 K), the thermal conductivity was determined to be In an attempt to clarify the mechanism of heat transfer in waste glass, the radiative thermal conductivity was determined using the absorption coefficient of photons in the waste glass. The measured thermal conductivity was compared with the radiative thermal conductivity and behavior of heat capacity. It was determined that (a) at temperatures above 1000 or 1100K, thermal conductivity included thermal radiation (radiative conduction) by a factor of 0.1 to 0.2 and (b) at temperatures above 1200 K, thermal conductivity seemed to be influenced by the scattering of photons by immiscible phases such as pores and inclusions.