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Chernobyl at 40 years: Looking back at Nuclear News
Sunday, April 26, at 1:23 a.m. local time will mark 40 years since the most severe nuclear accident in history: the meltdown of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
In the ensuing four decades, countless books, documentaries, articles, and conference sessions have examined Chernobyl’s history and impact from various angles. There is a similar abundance of outlooks in the archives of Nuclear News, where hundreds of scientists, advocates, critics, and politicians have shared their thoughts on Chernobyl over the years. Today, we will take a look at some highlights from the pages of NN to see how the story of Chernobyl evolved over the decades.
Corie Horwood, Neal Bhandarkar, Vanessa N. Peters, Quahhar Fletcher, Michael Stadermann, Thomas L. Bunn
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 7 | October 2023 | Pages 809-815
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2171526
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Electroplating remains an attractive deposition approach for fabricating metal microspherical targets for inertial confinement fusion because of its relatively fast deposition rates and ability to produce full-density small grain coatings. Here, we discuss recent advances that allow for coating thick (>60 µm) leak-free gold capsules and capsules with gradients of gold and silver. We present a new apparatus used for electroplating hollow microspherical (typically 2-mm diameter) mandrels and discuss the resulting surface roughness and sphericity obtained using this plating method.