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IAEA to help monitor plastic pollution in the Galapagos Islands
The International Atomic Energy Agency announced that its Nuclear Technology for Controlling Plastic Pollution (NUTEC Plastics) initiative has partnered with Ecuador’s Oceanographic Institute of the Navy (INOCAR) and Polytechnic School of the Coast (ESPOL) to build microplastic monitoring and analytical capacity to address the growing threat of marine microplastic pollution in the Galapagos Islands.
Masafumi Nakatsuka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 103 | Number 3 | September 1993 | Pages 426-433
Technical Note | Nuclear Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT93-A34863
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Embrittlement of Zircaloy fuel cladding tubes by corrosion media was studied from the viewpoint of its applicability to spent-fuel reprocessing. The results from irradiated as well as unirradiated tubes are summarized as follows: 1.When iodine was employed as the solute, the use of methanol as the solvent caused significant embrittlement of the Zircaloy. 2.For the iodine-methanol solution, the embrittlement increased with the iodine content but saturated at 1 wt%. 3.A water content of up to 10 vol% in the iodine-methanol solution did not decrease the extent of embrittlement. 4.Fracture was of the grain-boundary type, and a fuel cladding tube irradiated to ∼35 GWd/t showed the same embrittlement behavior as an unirradiated one.
