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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
J. J. Quillico, P. J. Despresles
Nuclear Technology | Volume 66 | Number 3 | September 1984 | Pages 523-533
E. Friction and Wear | Status of Metallic Materials Development for Application in Advanced High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33475
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A series of tests on the mechanical behavior of thermal barriers used in high-temperature gas-cooled reactors were performed. Three full-scale mock-ups were built for this purpose, each representing one element of the different kinds of barrier involved. These barriers consisted roughly of sheets of fibrous insulating material (alumina and silica) compressed by metallic cover plates made of steel (XC-18) or a hightemperature alloy (Hastelloy alloy X). For these trials, the mock-ups were subjected to thermal conditions typical of