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The spark of the Super: Teller–Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb—rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years
In early 1951, Los Alamos scientists Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam devised a breakthrough that would lead to the hydrogen bomb [1]. Their design gave the United States an initial advantage in the Cold War, though comparable progress was soon achieved independently in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
G. B. Hiremath, V. P. Singh, N. H. Ayachit, N. M. Badiger
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 198 | Number 9 | September 2024 | Pages 1806-1816
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2270742
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The Ti-Nb-Fe-Cr alloys are used in various fields, such as nuclear radiation shielding, cladding material in nuclear reactors, and implants in the medical field. It is one of the best materials for biomedical applications as it is biocompatible, is corrosion resistant, and has good mechanical properties. As nuclear radiation emanates from various sources in a nuclear reactor, the behavior of this alloy with the interaction of gamma and neutrons has not been well studied. In the present investigations, the interaction of gammas and neutrons with Ti-27Nb-7Fe-xCr (x = 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8 wt%) alloys is studied in order to understand the radiation shielding properties and their usefulness in biomedical applications. Gamma-ray–interaction parameters such as MAC, HVL, MFP, Zeff, Zeq, Neff, and multilayer energy absorption buildup factor (MLEABF) are estimated using EpiXs, PyMLBUF, and NGCal software in the energy range of 1 keV to 15 MeV. The multilayer buildup factor (MLBF) is calculated for cortical bone and for alloys with varying Cr concentrations. Comparison of the MLBF values of alloys with cortical bone shows that in the lower-energy region as well as the higher-energy region above 0.5 MeV, alloys and cortical bone yield the same values, indicating that the alloys behave as cortical bone in this energy region. Mass attenuation factors (MAFs) of thermal and fast neutrons are also calculated for various elastic modulus values of selected alloys at thermal and fast neutrons. It is found that the elastic modulus increases with increasing MAF values of both fast and thermal neutrons. By increasing the Cr content in the Ti-27Nb-7Fe alloy, the elastic modulus decreases. The relationship between the MAF of neutrons and the elastic modulus of the alloy is established for the first time.