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The present work critically reviews the scientific and patent literature on low-melting bismuth-based oxide glass frits in materials for electronics, sensors and related applications such as sealing glasses, solar cells, architectural and automotive glass, ...

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Recent progress in research on tungsten materials for nuclear fusion applications in Europe

Ho Ling Li, Nadine Baluc, Lyubomira Veleva, Antoine Cyril David Hoffmann

The current magnetic confinement nuclear fusion power reactor concepts going beyond ITER are based on assumptions about the availability of materials with extreme mechanical, heat, and neutron load capacity. In Europe, the development of such structural an ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Multiphysical Testing of Soils and Shales

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari

Significant advancements in the experimental analysis of soils and shales have been achieved during the last few decades. Outstanding progress in the field has led to the theoretical development of geomechanical theories and important engineering applicati ...

Springer2012

Progress of fusion nuclear technologies in the broader approach framework

Nadine Baluc

In the Broader Approach framework, the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility/Engineering Validation and Engineering Design Activities (IFMIF/EVEDA) project, the International Fusion Energy Research Center (IFERC) project, and the Satellite To ...

Elsevier Science Sa2012

The generation IV gas-cooled fast reactor

Manuel Alexandre Pouchon, Konstantin Mikityuk

The gas cooled fast reactor (GFR) is a helium-cooled fast spectrum reactor operating within a closed fuel cycle. It combines the advantages of fast reactors, in terms of a more sustainable use of uranium resources and waste minimisation, with the wider app ...

Societe Francaise d'Energie Nucleaire2011

Comparison of nuclear reactions for the production of monoenergetic neutron fields with energies below 100 keV

Vincent Pierre Lamirand

NPL, PTB, IRMM and IRSN are involved, within a scientific cooperation, in a comprehensive study aimed at developing reference low-energy monoenergetic neutron fields. This paper will explain the impor- tance of such developments, highlighted by the over re ...

Elsevier2010

Nuclear material investigations by advanced analytical techniques

Manuel Alexandre Pouchon, Johannes Bertsch, Goutam Kuri

Advanced analytical techniques have been used to characterize nuclear materials at the Paul Scherrer Institute during the last decade. The analysed materials ranged from reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steels, Zircaloy claddings to fuel samples. The processe ...

Elsevier2010

Particle pinch and collisionality in gyrokinetic simulations of tokamak plasma turbulence

Henri Weisen, Mikhail Maslov, Emiliano Fable

The generic problem of how, in a turbulent plasma, the experimentally relevant conditions of a particle flux very close to the null are achieved, despite the presence of strong heat fluxes, is addressed. Nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of plasma turbulen ...

American Institute of Physics2009

Development of the control assembly pattern and dynamic analysis of the generation IV large gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR)

Gaëtan Girardin

During the past ten years, different independent factors, such as the rapidly increasing worldwide demand in energy, societal concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, and the high and volatile prices for fossil fuels, have contributed to the renewed intere ...

EPFL2009

Internal gelation at PSI. The past and the future

Manuel Alexandre Pouchon

The Paul Scherrer Institute used to be very active in fuel fabrication R and D using the internal gelation process, which is a promising production method for spherical nuclear fuel. Such fuel kernels can be directly packed in a cylindrical cladding (a sph ...

2009

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