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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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As most attendees of this year’s ANS Annual Conference left breakfast in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Downtown Marriott to sit in on presentations covering everything from career pathways in fusion to recently digitized archival nuclear films, 40 of them made their way to the hotel’s fifth floor to take part in the second offering of Nuclear 101, a newly designed certification course that seeks to give professionals who are in or adjacent to the industry an in-depth understanding of the essentials of nuclear energy and engineering from some of the field’s leading experts.
CH. Adelhelm, H.U. Borgstedt, J. Konys
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 541-545
Material Engineering — Behavior | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40095
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The application of vanadium alloys as structural materials for the first wall or blanket of a fusion reactor will depend strongly on their compatibility with the coolants and breeding materials included in the blanket system. In the case of the use of liquid alkali metals, lithium offers the advantage of being an excellent heat transfer fluid as well as an excellent breeder of tritium. For the studies of the corrosion behaviour of V 3Ti 1Si in flowing lithium, a pumped lithium loop was designed and constructed. The results gained so far indicate that this vanadium alloy is, from the point of view of compatibility with liquid lithium up to 823 K, a promising material for the application in fusion reactor technology.
