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MARVEL team shares lessons learned through microreactor development
On June 1 at the American Nuclear Society’s Annual Conference in Denver, Colo., a team from Idaho National Laboratory presented a session titled “Lessons Learned from MARVEL Reactor Fabrication.” The presentation highlighted challenges that arose as they moved from design to manufacturing and assembly, with a focus on reactor part fabrication, Stirling engine implementation, and reactivity control system development.
Jeffrey W. Ray, Albert B. Reynolds
Nuclear Technology | Volume 91 | Number 3 | September 1990 | Pages 394-403
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34460
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The effect of various antioxidants and antioxidant concentrations on the room-temperature radiation stability of ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) and cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) materials used as insulation for electric cable in nuclear power plants is measured. Relative elongation to rupture between aged and unaged material is used as the measure of stability. The materials are irradiated to doses up to 2.0 MGy (200 Mrad) at a dose rate of 300 Gy/h (3 x 104 rad/h) in the Cobalt-60 Gamma Irradiation Facility at the University of Virginia. Several of the antioxidants in EPDM perform well to the maximum doses for which reliable data were obtained of either 1.0 or 1.6 MGy. An XLPE material with Agerite™ MA antioxidant performs well to the maximum dose for which reliable data were obtained of 1.0 MGy. Stabilization at 1.0 MGy increases with increasing antioxidant concentration, though not in proportion to the concentration.