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Nicholas Tsoulfanidis—ANS member since 1969
We welcome ANS members who have careered in the community to submit their own Nuclear Legacy stories, so that the personal history of nuclear power can be captured. For information on submitting your stories, contact nucnews@ans.org.
As an undergraduate I studied physics at the University of Athens. I entered the university in 1955 after successfully passing a national exam (came up fourth in a field of about 700 candidates). Upon graduation and finishing my mandatory two-year military service, the plan was to teach physics either in a public high school or as a tutor for a private for-profit institution, preparing high school students for the national exam.
Peng Li, Weiping Shen, Shuming Wang, Chulei Zhou, Shiliang Xu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 142-149
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-709
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This paper presents a W mockup with an interlayer of diamond/Cu (DC) composite material. As a joining interlayer, DC composite material has high thermal conductivity and accommodative coefficient of thermal expansion. By adjusting the thickness of the DC layer and comparing different forms of armor, the optimal design is the brush armor mockup with a 1-mm-thickness DC layer. The thermal-structural behavior of this mockup was analyzed under the steady-state and transient heat flux by using ANSYS Workbench. The calculated temperature and stress indicate that the mockup can tolerate 10 MW/m2 steady-state heat flux at most. Then a transient heat flux (300 MW/m2 for 5 ms) is loaded on the top surface upon steady-state heat flux of 8 MW/m2. The surface temperature instantly rises to 2300°C, but a cracking trend is not shown at the loaded surface.