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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
Toshiharu Sakurai, Toshiaki Yoneoka, Satoru Tanaka, Akihiro Suzuki, Takeo Muroga
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 649-653
Fusion Materials | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963312
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A purpose of the present study is to investigate the compatibility of SiC/SiC composite material and AlN ceramics with liquid metals. Corrosion behavior of materials could be affected by non-metallic impurities like nitrogen in liquid lithium. Another purpose of the present study is to control the concentration of nitrogen impurity by using getter materials and to study the effect of getter materials on compatibility with AlN. At 700K, all of the SiC/SiC specimens, except high purity specimen, were entirely broken down in liquid lithium. Even in this high purity specimen, many cracks were observed on the surface. On the other hand, in the case of SiC/SiC with Li17Pb83 at 773K, all of the specimens were not corroded. At 673K, impurity levels in AlN were changed in the case immersed in liquid lithium with getter materials. At 823K, impurities in AlN were attacked by lithium and the surface of it was locally peeled off. It was also observed that the getter material captured nitrogen.
