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IAEA looks at nuclear techniques for crop resilience
The International Atomic Energy Agency has launched a five-year coordinated research project (CRP) to strengthen plant health preparedness using nuclear and related technologies.
Wheat blast, potato late blight, potato bacterial wilt, and cassava witches broom disease can spread quickly across large areas of land, leading to severe yield losses in key crops for food security. Global trade and climate change have increased the likelihood of rapid, transboundary spread.
William L. Baldewicz, Ahmed R. Wazzan, David Okrent
Nuclear Technology | Volume 46 | Number 2 | December 1979 | Pages 263-267
Technical Paper | Nuclear Power Reactor Safety (Presented at the ENS/ANS International Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, October 16–19, 1978) / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32326
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Grain size is one of the most important parameters affecting fission gas release and swelling of nuclear fuels. On the other hand, fission gas bubbles in previously irradiated fuel interact with moving grain boundaries and affect subsequent grain growth. Equations are developed that describe equiaxed grain growth in oxide fuel that has undergone previous irradiation (burnup) at temperatures too low to promote grain growth. The resulting expressions relate the grain growth rate at the new high temperature to the percent burnup (or fission gas content) experienced during the prior low-temperature period.