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ANS designates Armour Research Foundation Reactor as Nuclear Historic Landmark
The American Nuclear Society presented the Illinois Institute of Technology with a plaque last week to officially designate the Armour Research Foundation Reactor a Nuclear Historic Landmark, following the Society’s decision to confer the status onto the reactor in September 2024.
M. Kaminsky, S. K. Das
Nuclear Technology | Volume 22 | Number 3 | June 1974 | Pages 373-378
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31421
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The effect of target temperature on blister formation and the erosion rates associated with helium blistering has been investigated for vanadium and Type 304 stainless steel. The irradiation temperature was varied from room temperature to 900°C for vanadium targets and was varied from room temperature to 550°C for stainless-steel targets. The vanadium and stainless-steel targets were bombarded with helium ions of 0.5 MeV and of 0.1 and 0.5 MeV, respectively. The total dose was varied from 0.1 C/cm2 to 1.0 C/cm2 (6.24 × 101 ions/cm2). The results show that the degree of blistering and the erosion rates associated with blister rupture and exfoliation are strongly temperature dependent. For example, for stainless-steel samples the maximum erosion rates were observed at an irradiation temperature of ∼450°C, and the erosion rate was found to be smaller at the higher temperature of ∼550°C. For vanadium samples, the maximum erosion was observed to occur at higher temperatures than for the stainless-steel cases.
