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Deep Space: The new frontier of radiation controls
In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
Keiji Nagai, Daisuke Wada, Mitsuo Nakai, Takayoshi Norimatsu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 49 | Number 4 | May 2006 | Pages 686-690
Technical Paper | Target Fabrication | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1186
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This paper deals with the fabrication of low-density metal using micro-template and electrochemical plating techniques. Tin and gold foam films were demonstrated. For both cases, porous foam plating required 0.5 V negatively higher bias potential than that for conventional metal plating. The electric current density values for them are smaller than those for bulk metal plating. In spite of these differences, the coulomb efficiency was almost the same as those for bulk metal plating. The density was almost close to the rest of closed packing density; 23 % of bulk metal for gold and 20 % of bulk metal for tin. These low-density foams will be applied for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) generation or other application through laser produced plasma.
