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Advanced nuclear plants are designed for long-term operation in quite demanding environments. Limited operation experience with the materials used in such plants necessitate a reliable assessment of damage and residual life of components. Non-destructive c ...
The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) is an intense high-energy neutron source dedicated to the development and qualification of materials for the first generation of fusion reactors. The target facility will consist of a high flu ...
The use of filamentous catalysts for innovative design of chemical reactors with structured catalytic beds is discussed in detail. The fluid dynamics attained in such reactors avoid transport limitations (mixing or heat- and mass-transfer) and increase rea ...
A computer model for the MEGAwatt Pilot Target Experiment (MEGAPIE) was developed, verified and applied to the analysis of the reference accident, resulting from the hypothetical loss of a Pb–Bi inventory and subsequent cooling down of the target with free ...
The case of a brominated RNA crystal structure determination in which standard three-wavelength MAD phasing was unsuccessful because of fast X-ray-induced debromination was reinvestigated [Ennifar et al. ( 2002), Acta Cryst. D58, 1262 - 1268]. It was found ...
The present thesis focuses on the effect of 5 MeV Ni ion irradiation on the microstructure and the thermomechanical behavior in prestrained (ε∼4%) martensitic Ti-rich NiTi thin films. At this ion energy, damage is limited to a depth of approximately 2 µm ( ...
The behaviour of fission gas in high burnup fuel during steady-state and transient conditions is of special interest for safety reasons. Despite this, mechanistic models that reflect the fission gas transport processes and reliably predict the evolution of ...
Recent explosions at two chemical plants, one in the United States and one in Japan, involving hydroxylamine manufacture underline the lack of mechanistic understanding about this industrially relevant compound. The basic chemical properties of hydroxylami ...
Critical experiments involving fuel pin gamma-scans have been performed to characterise total fission reaction rate axial distributions in a Westinghouse SVEA-96+ assembly under full-density water moderation [these investigations are part of the co-operati ...
NaNbO3 powders with various particle sizes (ranging from 30 nm to several microns) and well-controlled stoichiometry were obtained through microemulsion-mediated synthesis. The effect of particle size on the phase transformation of the prepared NaNbO3 Powd ...
