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ANS hosts webinar on criticality safety standards
A diagram depicting the NRC’s regulatory structure for nuclear criticality safety. (Image: Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series last month. RP3C chair Steven Krahn opened the meeting with brief introductory remarks about the importance of risk-informed, performance based (RIPB) decision-making and the need for new approaches to nuclear design that go beyond conventional and deterministic methods.
S. D. Fedorovich, V. P. Budaev, Y. V. Martynenko, D. I. Kavyrshin, M. V. Lukashevsky, Y. I. Rukina, M. V. Budaeva, Quang Vinh Tran, K. A. Rogosin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 8 | November 2025 | Pages 894-900
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2025.2479240
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Irradiation of titanium with stationary helium plasma with edge fusion relevant plasma parameters was carried out in the PLM-M fusion device. A highly specific area and porous nanostructured surface with a nanostructure size from ~20 to ~200 nm was obtained. Such structures are obtained by processing refractory metals irradiated with plasma to produce structures such as fuzz and cauliflower. After plasma irradiation, titanium samples were processed in a nitrogen gas to obtain titanium nitride on the surface. The resulting surface has a high specific capacity and a low impedance of the double electric layer when testing samples in an electrolyte. Such material characteristics are promising for medical use in the manufacture of pacemaker electrodes.