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Siting of Canadian repository gets support of tribal nation
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announced that Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation has indicated its willingness to support moving forward to the next phase of the site selection process to host a deep geological repository for Canada’s spent nuclear fuel.
Junjie Zhao, Zhaochun Zhang, Haibo Guo, Yang Wang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 80 | Number 5 | July 2024 | Pages 666-681
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2228013
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A computational study of the thermodynamic and elastic properties of the tungsten-berylliuminterface structure and the behavior of a helium-vacancy pair near the tungsten/beryllium interface is carried out by first-principles calculations. Briefly, the following properties were calculated: (1) electronic properties of the tungsten/beryllium interface structure and (2) thermodynamic functions, Gibbs free energy, entropy, and enthalpy and anisotropies and isotropic (poly-crystalline) elastic moduli (bulk, torsion, Young’s moduli) of the tungsten/beryllium interface structure containing helium interstitial atoms or helium-vacancy pairs. The computational study was to provide a critical appraisal of the effect of helium interstitial atoms on the properties of the tungsten/beryllium interface structure. Calculated interface properties could be incorporated in an antiradiation damaging feature evaluation system to develop and test tungsten-based composites as plasma-facing materials.
