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Deploying nuclear power: Financing, risk, and execution in the current market environment
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The renewed global interest in nuclear power is often framed as a policy story driven by decarbonization goals, energy security concerns, and surging electricity demand from digital infrastructure and electrification. While these forces are real and durable, they materially understate the challenge at hand. The practical constraint on nuclear deployment today is not strategic will, but execution. Specifically, the challenge lies in how nuclear projects are financed, how risk is allocated, and how investors assess credibility in a sector defined by long timelines and asymmetric downside risk.
A. Yoshikawa, Y. Oya, H. Miyauchi, T. Nakahata, Y. Nishikawa, T. Suda, E. Igarashi, M. Oyaidzu, M. Tokitani, H. Iwakiri, N. Yoshida, K. Okuno
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 52 | Number 4 | November 2007 | Pages 870-874
Technical Paper | First Wall, Blanket, and Shield | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1602
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He+ implantation effects on the Retention behavior of hydrogen isotopes implanted into 35% oxygen-contained boron film was studied by means of SEM, AFM, XPS and TDS. It was found that the D retention for only D2+ implanted film was the highest and it decreased for pre-He+ implanted film and post-He+ implanted film. From the SEM and AFM images, the surface morphology of the oxygen-contained boron film was partly cracked, indicating that B2O3 was formed in the film. From the TDS and XPS results, the defective structure and the formation of B-D-B bond, B-D bond and B-O-D bond were observed by He+ and D2+ implantation, respectively. It was suggested that oxygen was trapped as B-O bond. The reaction with implanted D2+ was preceded in different mechanism.
