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IAEA promoting nuclear energy with G20
The International Atomic Energy Agency launched a collaboration with the Group of 20 this week to highlight the key role that nuclear energy can play in achieving energy security and climate-change goals.
The aim of this first-of-its-kind partnership with G20—the world’s largest economic group—is to build momentum for nuclear power. This is the first time the IAEA has presented to G20 on issues relating to nuclear power.
Masaru Nagura, Masatoshi Kondo, Akihiro Suzuki, Takeo Muroga, Takayuki Terai
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 52 | Number 3 | October 2007 | Pages 630-634
Technical Paper | First Wall, Blanket, and Shield | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1559
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Corrosion of candidate materials of insulating coating was investigated in natural convection lithium (Li) loop. The loop was constructed for present study and bulk specimens of Er2O3, Y2O3 and AlN were placed at several positions in the loop. The operation temperature was 400 °C in the low temperature region and 500 °C in the high temperature region. After the exposure, specimens were cleaned and the corrosion characteristics were investigated. The results indicated that the corrosion characteristics of the bulk specimens were similar to those obtained by the static test in the previous study.