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Leading the charge: INL’s role in advancing HALEU production
Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts, from material recovery at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to commercial enrichment initiatives.
Meimei Li, James F. Stubbins
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 1 | July 2003 | Pages 186-190
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Fusion Materials | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A331
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The influence of radiation damage on the fatigue performance of two selected copper alloys, a dispersion-strengthened CuAl-25 alloy and a precipitation-hardened CuCrZr alloy, was analyzed. The fatigue lives of the two alloys were predicted using their tensile properties before and after irradiation by the Universal Slopes method. The predicted lives are compared with experimental results, and the feasibility of using tensile properties to predict fatigue lives following irradiation is examined. The fatigue performance of these two copper alloys was degraded due to radiation exposure, but the radiation effect on the fatigue performance was not as severe as on the tensile properties. The life prediction agrees reasonably well with the measured fatigue response.