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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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As most attendees of this year’s ANS Annual Conference left breakfast in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Downtown Marriott to sit in on presentations covering everything from career pathways in fusion to recently digitized archival nuclear films, 40 of them made their way to the hotel’s fifth floor to take part in the second offering of Nuclear 101, a newly designed certification course that seeks to give professionals who are in or adjacent to the industry an in-depth understanding of the essentials of nuclear energy and engineering from some of the field’s leading experts.
T. Banno, S. Baba, A. Kinbara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 6 | Number 2 | September 1984 | Pages 499-502
Technical Paper | Selected papers from the Ninth International Vacuum Congress and the Fifth International Conference on Solid Surfaces (Madrid, Spain, September 26-October 1, 1983) | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23227
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Two types of stainless steel, SUS304L and YUS170, are investigated by means of Auger Electron Spectroscopy and Scanning Electron Spectroscopy in order to assess some of their surface properties. In this experiment the effect of atomic hydrogen exposure on the composition of the material surfaces and on the surface topography is examined. For the irradiation with atomic hydrogen at elevated temperatures (100 °C ∼ 400 °C) an effective carbon removal cross section, σ, is obtained. The value of σ is of the order of 10−22 m2 for SUS304L and 10−23 m2 for YUS170. The surface oxygen concentration shows no decrease during the irradiation. Sulphur enrichment is detected after heating the samples due to surface segregation. The SEM observations show topographical surface changes in the grain size and in the roughness after heating and exposure to atomic hydrogen.
