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Judge temporarily blocks DOE’s move to slash university research funding
A group of universities led by the American Association of Universities (AAU) acted swiftly to oppose a policy action by the Department of Energy that would cut the funds it pays to universities for the indirect costs of research under DOE grants. The group filed suit Monday, April 14, challenging a what it termed a “flagrantly unlawful action” that could “devastate scientific research at America’s universities.”
By Wednesday, the U.S. District Court judge hearing the case issued a temporary restraining order effective nationwide, preventing the DOE from implementing the policy or terminating any existing grants.
Yixiang Xie, Richard B. Stephens, Nicholas C. Morosoff, William J. James
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 38 | Number 3 | November 2000 | Pages 384-390
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Beryllium Technology for Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST00-A36154
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Plasma-deposited coatings containing beryllium in excess of 50 atomic percent and oxygen content <5 atomic percent would meet the requirements for the outermost coating, the outer ablator of the multilayered microsphere for inertial confinement fusion (ICF). Films containing a Be2C composite with Be contents as high as 75 atomic percent (O < 2 atomic percent) have been deposited on a variety of substrates via magnetron sputtering of Be into a methane/argon plasma. The elemental composition was controlled by adjusting the methane/Ar flow rate ratio during the deposition process. The films were characterized by Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), neutron diffraction (ND), differential thermal analysis (DTA), and thermogrravimetric analysis (TGA).
