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Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement
Russia’s lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, approved a measure to withdraw from a 25-year-old agreement with the United States to cut back on the leftover plutonium from Cold War–era nuclear weapons.
Omesh K. Chopra, Dale L. Smith, Peter F. Tortorelli, Jackson H. DeVan, Dai Kai Sze
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 1985 | Pages 1956-1969
Technical Paper | Blanket Comparison and Selection Study | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24572
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A review of corrosion and environmental effects on the mechanical properties of candidate structural alloys for use with liquid metals infusion reactors is presented. The corrosion/mass transfer behavior of austenitic and ferritic steels and vanadium-base alloys is evaluated to determine the preliminary operating temperature limits for circulating and static liquid-lithium and Pb-17Li systems. The influence of liquid-metal environment on the mechanical properties of structural materials is discussed. Corrosion effects of nitrate and fluoride salts are presented. Requirements for additional data are identified.
