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ARPA-E announces $40 million to develop transmutation technologies for UNF
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) announced $40 million in funding to develop cutting-edge technologies to enable the transmutation of used nuclear fuel into less-radioactive substances. According to ARPA-E, the new initiative addresses one of the agency’s core goals as outlined by Congress: to provide transformative solutions to improve the management, cleanup, and disposal of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel.
Yosuke Abe, Tomoaki Suzudo, Shiro Jitsukawa, Tomohito Tsuru, Takashi Tsukada
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 62 | Number 1 | July-August 2012 | Pages 139-144
PFC and FW Materials Technology | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Part A: Fusion Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A14126
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It is known that the presence of even a small amount of impurity in interstitial positions can, depending on temperature, have a drastic influence on the one-dimensional (1-D) motion of self-interstitial atom (SIA) loops, and thus, on the accumulation of radiation damage in materials. In this study, atomic-scale computer simulations based on a recently developed optimization technique have been performed to evaluate the binding energies of SIA loops with interstitial carbon, a vacancy-carbon (V-C) complex, and a vacancy as a function of loop size in -iron. While weak and strong attractive interactions are found when an interstitial carbon atom and a vacancy, respectively, are located on the perimeter of an SIA loop, the interactions for both quickly weaken approaching the loop center. In contrast, for a wide range of loop sizes, significantly higher binding energies are obtained between an SIA loop and a V-C complex located within the habit plane of the loop. A cluster dynamics model was developed by taking into account the trapping effects of V-C complexes on 1-D migrating SIA loops, and preliminary calculations were performed to demonstrate the validity of the assumed trapping mechanism through a comparison of the microstructural evolution with experimental data in neutron-irradiated -iron.