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Five companies, five bases: The Army’s Janus Program takes shape
Between the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses and Nuclear Energy Launch Pad programs, August has already been a busy month for federal partnerships with the nuclear industry.
That trend continues: On Wednesday, the Department of the Army announced that it has selected five nuclear reactor developers—Antares Nuclear, BWXT Advanced Technologies, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, Radiant Industries, and Westinghouse Government Services—each paired with a different military installation, for its Janus Program.
This week, the nuclear community descended on Dallas, Texas, for the second annual Nuclear Energy Conference and Expo, the premier industry-focused nuclear conference cohosted by the American Nuclear Society and the Nuclear Energy Institute. Among the plenary panelists was Jeff Waksman, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy, and environment. Waksman has been closely involved in the development of the Janus Program, and the morning before the program’s new selections were unveiled, he provided insights on its ultimate goals at NECX 2026.
Yan Qizhen, Zhaochun Zhang, Guo Haibo, Wang Yang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 2024 | Pages 178-195
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2213811
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Tungsten/graphene composite was developed and demonstrated to have good mechanical and thermal properties. Density functional theory calculations were performed to investigate elastic constants, elastic anisotropies and isotropic elastic moduli, thermodynamic properties and minimum thermal conductivity of tungsten/graphene with and without a helium-vacancy pair, and tungsten/graphane and tungsten/ditungsten carbide (tungsten/W2C) composites. The results show that tungsten/graphene composite has more toughness when compared with pure tungsten metal. It is noticed that the minimum thermal conductivity of tungsten/graphene composite is higher, introducing a potential application in heat dissipation at high temperatures. We give an honest appraisal of the anisotropic and isotropic (polycrystalline) elastic properties of tungsten/graphene, tungsten/graphane, and tungsten/W2C carbide composites. In addition, the results show that the graphene layer is a strong trap for the He atom, while He affinity to the graphene layer is weaker to a single vacancy. The formation of the He-vacancy pair due to trapping effects near the W/graphene interface will help to reduce the concentration of impurities and defects in the tungsten matrix and maintain the inherent heat dissipation properties under irradiation.