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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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DOE fast tracks test reactor projects: What to know
The Department of Energy today unveiled 10 companies racing to bring test reactors online by next year to meet Trump's deadline of next Independance Day, leveraging a new DOE pathway that allows reactor authorization outside national labs. As first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released by President Trump on May 23 and in the request for applications for the Reactor Pilot Program released June 18, the companies must use their own money and sites—and DOE authorization—to get reactors operating. What they won’t need is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.
A. Alberman, J. P. Genthon, L. Salon, G. Allegraud
Nuclear Technology | Volume 36 | Number 3 | December 1977 | Pages 336-346
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31947
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Forecasting of changes in the physical properties of steels under irradiation is usually achieved through a detailed knowledge of the source in terms of atomic displacements. This source is extended to the secondary and tertiary atoms of the cascade, with Lindhard’s inelastic collision description. On this basis, it is possible to establish a model for the creation of “displacement zones” by evaluating their effectiveness through a nonoverlapping criterion between zones. The A 533 B steel yield strength increases after irradiation at 100°C (373 K) in two different spectra (Saclay—H2O at Osiris, D2O at EL.3) made it possible to compare the efficiency of this model with existing ones. Furthermore, preparation of the model leads to a normalized damage function closely approaching the one hitherto recommended by Euratom.