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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.”
J. L. Kaae
Nuclear Technology | Volume 35 | Number 2 | September 1977 | Pages 359-367
Performance and Performance Modeling | Coated Particle Fuel / Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31896
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The stresses and strains generated in the outer pyrocarbon (PyC) coating of a two-layer Biso fuel particle coating during irradiation are analyzed to include very significant PyC property changes during irradiation. These property changes are not included in other analyses. The most significant change is in the anisotropy of the coating during irradiation and is related to irradiation-induced creep. A proposed method for calculating the effects of these anisotropy changes on irradiation-induced dimensional changes is supported by experimental data. Variations in Young’s modulus and the creep parameters of the coating during irradiation are also included in the analysis. Particle failure probability is calculated with an extension of Weibull’s analysis to the PyC coating.
