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Members of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) joint undertaking gathered from September 29 to October 3 in Ketchum, Idaho, for the technical advisory group and governing board meetings hosted by Idaho National Laboratory. The FIDES-II Framework aims to ensure and foster competences in experimental nuclear fuel and structural materials in-reactor experiments through a diverse set of Joint Experimental Programs (JEEPs).
Yu Iwamoto, Takayuki Shirouzu, Yasushi Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Inoue
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 552-556
Nonelectric Applications | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963294
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Effects of electrode shape on fusion reaction rate in the cylindrical IECF device are investigated by the experiments to verify simulation results. The effects of the cylindrical edge of anodes are clearly observed, but the effect of cathode length and radius is not clear in the preliminary experiments. The maximum neutron generation rate of ~47 thousand neutrons per second is obtained with 37.5kV, 6mA discharge using an anode with 40-mm depth edge.