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Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
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Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems (MiNES 2023)
December 10–14, 2023
New Orleans, LA|New Orleans Marriott
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Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” at 70
Seventy years ago to the day, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his historic address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. (See December 2023 Nuclear News's “Leaders” column to read the reflections of Kathryn Huff, the Department of Energy’s assistant secretary for nuclear energy, on the speech’s anniversary.)
Karla B. W. Hall, Gerald L. Kulcinski, John F. Santarius, Richard L. Bonomo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 6 | August 2019 | Pages 520-525
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1612227
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Single crystal tungsten samples with (110) and (100) surface orientations were irradiated with 30 keV He+ at 900ºC to fluences of 3×1017 to 1×1019 He+/cm2 at normal incidence. The samples exhibited various microstructures and increasing sample mass loss as a function of increasing fluence for both cases. Pores observed on the sample surface at each fluence were ~45 nm in diameter merging into larger surface pores up to ~800 nm in length at the highest irradiation fluence of 1×1019 He+/cm2.