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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
Makoto Fukuda, Shuhei Nogami, Kiyohiro Yabuuchi, Akira Hasegawa, Takeo Muroga
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 3 | October 2015 | Pages 690-693
Technical Paper | Proceedings of TOFE-2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-998
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The effects of K-bubble dispersion and 3 wt.% Re addition on the tensile properties and their anisotropy in W were investigated in this work. K-doped W and K-doped W-3%Re showed ~45 and ~65% higher tensile strengths than pure W, respectively. The ultimate tensile strength and its temperature dependence in pure W, K-doped W, and K-doped W-3%Re showed anisotropy. However, the effects of K-bubble dispersion and 3% Re addition on the anisotropic tensile strength were not clearly observed. K-doped W and K-doped W-3%Re showed better deformation abilities than pure W. K-doped W-3%Re showed better tensile properties than pure W under non-irradiation conditions used in this work. Since irradiation hardening is suppressed by adding 3% Re, K-doped W-3%Re is expected to be more advantageous as a plasma facing material in a fusion reactor than pure W and K-doped W.