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BREAKING NEWS: Trump issues executive orders to overhaul nuclear industry
The Trump administration issued four executive orders today aimed at boosting domestic nuclear deployment ahead of significant growth in projected energy demand in the coming decades.
During a live signing in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump called nuclear “a hot industry,” adding, “It’s a brilliant industry. [But] you’ve got to do it right. It’s become very safe and environmental.”
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 49 | Number 4 | December 1972 | Pages 506-507
Technical Notes | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22570
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A simple model for the gas-diffusion-controlled growth of stationary gas bubbles in an isothermal solid, under constant rate of gas generation, is used to evaluate the temperature dependence of fission-gas swelling in uranium monocarbide. Using experimental data for the temperature-dependent volume diffusivity of xenon in uranium carbide, it is found that the predicted temperature at which the onset of fission-gas swelling occurs, evaluated at a given fission density, correlates relatively well with swelling data and is of the order of one-half the absolute melting point. Variations of bubble concentration and gas-generation rate are found to affect this predicted swelling-onset temperature only to a relatively slight extent.
