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IAEA project aims to develop polymer irradiation model
The International Atomic Energy Agency has launched a new coordinated research project (CRP) aimed at creating a database of polymer-radiation interactions in the next five years with the long-term goal of using the database to enable machine learning–based predictive models.
Radiation-induced modifications are widely applicable across a range of fields including healthcare, agriculture, and environmental applications, and exposure to radiation is a major factor when considering materials used at nuclear power plants.
David C. Baxter, Nelson Byrne
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 3 | Number 2 | March 1983 | Pages 236-243
Technical Paper | Special Section Content | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A20847
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The physics of deuterium-fueled tokamak reactors and a transport code, DDMAK, developed to model them are described. Two examples of work done with this code are presented. In the first, the possible temperature profile broadening effect of synchrotron radiation is examined quantitatively and found small. The second example is a study of the importance of nuclear elastic scattering (NES) in the context of a deuterium-deuterium reactor plasma. Although there are some differences in the DDMAK results due to NES, the overall effect is small. Still the calculational methods may be important for future, more demanding cases.