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How to talk about nuclear
In your career as a professional in the nuclear community, chances are you will, at some point, be asked (or volunteer) to talk to at least one layperson about the technology you know and love. You might even be asked to present to a whole group of nonnuclear folks, perhaps as a pitch to some company tangential to your company’s business. So, without further ado, let me give you some pointers on the best way to approach this important and surprisingly complicated task.
Xiong Yifu, Song Jiangfeng, Luo Deli, Lei Qianghua, Chen Chang’an
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 3 | April 2015 | Pages 647-649
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T101
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TiN+TiC+TiN multiple films are deposited on the surface of 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel by ion-beam assisted deposition technology. The characteristics of films are tested by XPS, SEM and XRD, which showed that the film are compact and uniform with a thickness of about 15μm, and have a good adherence with the substrate below 773 K. The diffraction peaks in the XRD patterns for TiC and TiN are broadened, implying that the multiple films are deposited on the surface of 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel. Meanwhile, the C-H bonded CH4-appears in the infrared spectra of multiple films, suggesting that the CH4- is in a static state, so hydrogen atom cannot migrate from the site bonded with carbon to a neighboring site. The deuterium permeability in 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel coated with multiple films is 2-3 orders of magnitude lower than that in pure 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel substrate from 473 K to 773 K.
