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Fusion energy: Progress, partnerships, and the path to deployment
Over the past decade, fusion energy has moved decisively from scientific aspiration toward a credible pathway to a new energy technology. Thanks to long-term federal support, we have significantly advanced our fundamental understanding of plasma physics—the behavior of the superheated gases at the heart of fusion devices. This knowledge will enable the creation and control of fusion fuel under conditions required for future power plants. Our progress is exemplified by breakthroughs at the National Ignition Facility and the Joint European Torus.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 3 | October 2011 | Pages 1131-1134
Blanket and Breeder Materials | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12614
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Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) process is a vapor phase growth technique which is synthesized via vapor phase from metal organic complex material and will become one of the desirable deposition methods to form oxide layer on the complicated shape ducts and large-area walls of breeding blanket components. The single phase erbium oxide (Er2O3) coating layers were able to be synthesized on metal substrates such as stainless-steel 316 (SUS316) and vanadium alloy and Si single crystal plates. In this paper, the hydrogen permeation and electrical property of Er2O3 coating layer via MOCVD process will be mainly reported. The hydrogen permeation quantity of Er2O3 coating layer estimated by QMS was decreased by 1/20 compared with SUS 316 at 400 °C. In addition, the demonstration of Er2O3 coating into the interior surface of the stainless-steel was also succeeded.
