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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
Hubertus Nickel, Florian Schubert
Nuclear Technology | Volume 66 | Number 3 | September 1984 | Pages 649-660
H. Design Codes and Life Prediction | Status of Metallic Materials Development for Application in Advanced High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33486
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Based on the existing structural design code for pressure vessel and nuclear light water reactor power stations, situations for metallic structures in hightemperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs) are described for those metallic structures that mainly operate in temperature ranges of time-independent and time-dependent materials properties. The ASME Code Case N 47 is critically reviewed. For advanced HTGRs with components for operating temperatures >800°C, no nuclear accepted structural design code exists. The status of the ongoing work for the basis of those codes is given with the main emphasis on the situation in the Federal Republic of Germany.
