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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law on Monday that adds nuclear to the state’s clean energy portfolio—making nuclear power eligible for new sources of project financing at the state, county, and city levels.
X. N. Hao, J. J. Sha, J. X. Dai, J. Li, J. Lv, X. L. Yang, H. K. Yoon
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 163-170
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-761
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Tungsten and CuCrZr alloy have been considered as the potential candidates for armor and heat sinking materials of plasma-facing components (PFCs) because of their attractive mechanical, nuclear and physical properties. However, due to the incompatibility of the coefficient of thermal expansion and the elastic properties between the W and the Cu alloy as well as the nonhomogeneous temperature distribution in PFCs, one of the crucial issues is the generation of thermal stresses in W/CuCrZr PFCs on cooling either during fabrication or during operation of a fusion reactor. In the current work, the thermo-mechanical analysis of W/Cu-alloy joints, where a compliant OFHC-Cu with different thickness was used as an interlayer, was carried out by using finite element method (FEM) under various conditions including the fabrication process and steady and transient operation.