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DOE seeks proposals for AI data centers at Paducah
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has issued a request for offer (RFO) seeking proposals from U.S. companies to build and power AI data centers on the DOE’s Paducah Site in Kentucky. Companies are being sought to potentially enter into one or more long-term leasing agreements at the site that would be solely funded by the applicants.
Lee A. James
Nuclear Technology | Volume 74 | Number 1 | July 1986 | Pages 84-92
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33821
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Fatigue-crack growth specimens from a number of austenitic stainless steels and weldments [annealed Types 304 and 316, 20% cold-worked Type 316, SA-351 Grade CF8, Type 304/308 shielded-metal-arc (SMA) weldments, and Type 316/IN-82/IN-718 gastungsten-arc weldments] were irradiated in Experimental Breeder Reactor-II. Postirradiation crack-growth testing showed little or no effect of irradiation on the crack growth behavior of annealed Type 304, coldworked Type 316, and Type 304/308 SMA weldments. On the other hand, irradiation produced a minor reduction in crack growth rates in annealed Type 316 and minor increases in crack growth rates in SA-351 Grade CF8 castings and Type 316/IN-82/IN-718 GTA weldments over certain ranges of ΔK.
