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Deep Isolation validates its disposal canister for TRISO spent fuel
Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation announced it has successfully completed Project PUCK, a government-funded initiative to demonstrate the feasibility and potential commercial readiness of its Universal Canister System (UCS) to manage TRISO spent nuclear fuel.
V. P. Budaev, S. D. Fedorovich, A. V. Dedov, A. V. Karpov, Yu. V. Martynenko, D. I. Kavyrshin, M. K. Gubkin, M. V. Lukashevsky, A. V. Lazukin, A. V. Zakharenkov, A. P. Sliva, A. Yu. Marchenkov, M. V. Budaeva, Q. V. Tran, K. A. Rogozin, A. A. Konkov, G. B. Vasilyev, D. A. Burmistrov, S. V. Belousov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 4 | May 2023 | Pages 407-412
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2118471
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The erosion of nanostructured tungsten and titanium by high-heat plasma flux, laser, and arcing is investigated. To fabricate nanostructural fuzz layers and hierarchical granularity on the surfaces, samples were exposed to helium plasma in the steady-state plasma device PLM-M, which is a linear plasma trap of an eight-pole multicusp magnetic field with parameters similar to the scrape-off layer and divertor plasma in a tokamak. Arcing ignited with a Nd:YAG laser pulse on the target fuzzy surface in the helium plasma resulted in the melting of fibers and the creation of craters of several microns in depth and several tens of microns in diameter.
