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Radiation-Induced Surface Activation is an inherent phenomenon where surfaces that are exposed to gamma irradiation are observed to undergo an increase in wettability. This...
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A thorough understanding of oxidation is important when considering the health and integrity of graphite components in graphite reactors. For the next generation of graphite...
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Ultrasonic technologies offer the potential for high accuracy and resolution in-pile measurement of a range of parameters, including geometry changes, temperature, crack...
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What determines precipitate morphologies in co-precipitating alloy systems? We focus on alloys of two precipitating phases, with the fast-precipitating phase acting as...
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Several Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) programs, such as the Fuel Cycle Research and Development (FCRD), Advanced Reactor Concepts (ARC), Light Water...
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Given a growing interest in uranium salts for pyrochemical processing of used fuel and uranium-fueled molten salt reactors, the synthesis of uranium trichloride in alkali-metal...
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The effects of neutron irradiation on microstructural evolution and the resultant changes in physical and mechanical properties are of critical importance for the development of...
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Current generation light water reactors (LWRs), sodium cooled fast reactors (SFRs), small modular reactors (SMRs), and next generation nuclear plants (NGNPs) produce harsh...
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1130 file(s)This is the mechanical testing data archive from a neutron irradiation campaign of nuclear structural alloys fabricated by powder metallurgy with hot isostatic pressing (PM-...
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Ultrasonic technologies offer the potential for high accuracy and resolution in-pile measurement of numerous parameters, including geometry changes, temperature, crack...
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The radiation-induced amorphization of U3Si2 was investigated by in-situ transmission electron microscopy ion irradiation. Both arc-melted and sintered U3Si2 specimens were...
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The effects of neutron irradiation temperature and dose on thermal diffusivity are compared between non-irradiated and in-pile irradiated MgO samples. MgO pellets were...
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ANS Virtual Winter Meeting Presentation on Impact of Ionizing Irradiation on Surface Wettability: Fundamentals and Application in Engineering Superhydrophobic Surfaces
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Growth of wurtzite ScxAl1−xN (x < 0.23) by plasma-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy on cplane GaN at high temperatures significantly alters the extracted lattice constants of...
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Conventionally sol-gel spray-on transducers require a high-temperature (> 700 ◦C) sintering process; however, this process can affect the microstructure of the substrate...
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Microstructural changes induced by neutron irradiation of superfine grain graphite G347A (Tokai Carbon, Japan) were examined by nitrogen adsorption at 77K and by three...
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Spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are promising quantum systems for the design of flexible two-dimensional quantum sensing platforms. Here we rely on hBN crystals...
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The growing global demand for energy will increasingly call upon advanced nuclear fission reactors to supply safe and reliable electricity. The structural and fuel cladding...
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Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility 2013 Annual Report
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Here, we employ a combination of advanced synchrotron-based scattering characterization techniques to understand and unravel the atomic origins of the colossal stored energy...