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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.
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.
