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Nuclear Dirigo
On April 22, 1959, Rear Admiral George J. King, superintendent of the Maine Maritime Academy, announced that following the completion of the 1960 training cruise, cadets would begin the study of nuclear engineering. Courses at that time included radiation physics, reactor control and instrumentation, reactor theory and engineering, thermodynamics, shielding, core design, reactor maintenance, and nuclear aspects.
R. L. Beatty, F. A. Carlsen, Jr., J. L. Cook
Nuclear Technology | Volume 1 | Number 6 | December 1965 | Pages 560-566
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT65-A20584
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The effects of varying deposition conditions on the properties, especially the structural features, of pyrolytic carbon deposited on ceramic fuel particles in a fluidized bed were systematically investigated. The carbon was formed by thermally decomposing methane on 200-µm-diam uranium carbide particles. Variables considered were deposition temperature, between 1300 and 2000°C, and methane flow rate, between 0.0167 and 2.53 cm3 / (min cm2). It was shown that these variables strongly influence microstructure, density, crystallite size, and preferred orientation of the pyrolytic-carbon coatings. The results are presented as contour maps for property dependence and as a montage of photomicrographs for microstructure dependence. The microhardness of coatings deposited at 1400°C increased with methane flow rate by a factor .of 3 over the range of flow rates employed.