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NRC cancels advanced reactor meeting due to government shutdown
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced it is cancelling an upcoming advanced reactor stakeholder meeting, originally scheduled for November 19, due to the government shutdown and the limitations on staffing at the agency.
Shuhei Nogami, Takashi Nozawa, Daichi Kawai, Wenhai Guan, Akira Hasegawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 72 | Number 3 | October 2017 | Pages 398-403
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1333822
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Because fatigue resistance is one of the most important issues for the blanket structural materials of the fusion reactor, the fatigue damage formation processes of the advanced SiC/SiC composite (Tyranno SA 3rd/CVI-SiC composite with SiC/C multilayer interphase) for fusion reactor applications were investigated. The fatigue tests of the SiC/SiC composite were successfully performed up to 105 cycles with no significant technical issues by using a small specimen test technique developed under the IFMIF/EVEDA. Based on the evaluation of the modulus change during the fatigue tests, the tensile loading was clarified to be a dominant factor for the degradation of the SiC/SiC composite.