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RP3C Community of Practice’s fifth anniversary
In February, the Community of Practice (CoP) webinar series, hosted by the American Nuclear Society Standards Board’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policies Committee (RP3C), celebrated its fifth anniversary. Like so many online events, these CoPs brought people together at a time when interacting with others became challenging in early 2020. Since the kickoff CoP, which highlighted the impact that systems engineering has on the design of NuScale’s small modular reactor, the last Friday of most months has featured a new speaker leading a discussion on the use of risk-informed, performance-based (RIPB) thinking in the nuclear industry. Providing a venue to convene for people within ANS and those who found their way online by another route, CoPs are an opportunity for the community to receive answers to their burning questions about the subject at hand. With 50–100 active online participants most months, the conversation is always lively, and knowledge flows freely.
Jon L. Maienschein
Nuclear Technology | Volume 63 | Number 3 | December 1983 | Pages 426-430
Technical Paper | Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33269
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The possibility for spark-initiated explosions in deuterium containing 0.5 to 70 mol% uranium hexafluoride at pressures up to 2.8 MPa has been investigated. No explosions were observed under these conditions, although spark-initiated formation of the reaction product beta-uranium pentafluoride occurred. The spark potential for deuterium containing 0 to 25 mol% uranium hexafluoride at pressures up to 2.8 MPa is also reported. For pure deuterium, the voltage to produce a 1-mm-long spark ranged from 10 kV at 250 kPa to 24 kV at 2.7 MPa. The addition of uranium hexafluoride increased the spark voltage sharply; at 2.3 MPa the addition of 7 mol% UF6 raised the spark voltage from 24 to 73 kV.
