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November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Energy Secretary to speak at the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
In less than two weeks, the American Nuclear Society’s second annual conference of the year, the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo, will come to Washington, D.C.
Today, ANS is announcing that Energy Secretary Chris Wright will be joining the list of nuclear leaders slated to speak at the conference.
Click here to register for the meeting, which will take place November 9–12 in Washington, D.C., at the Washington Hilton. Be sure to do so before November 7 to take advantage of priority pricing.
Kazuo Minato, Hironobu Kikuchi, Kousaku Fukuda, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Tomimoto, Nobu Kitamura, Mitsunobu Kaneko
Nuclear Technology | Volume 106 | Number 3 | June 1994 | Pages 342-349
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT94-A34964
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Internal flaws in the silicon carbide (SiC) coating of fuel particles have been characterized. The internal flaws of the SiC coating were seen as external discolored spots. The porous flaws formed circumferentially during SiC deposition. These flaws may have a harmful effect on the mechanical integrity and the diffusion barrier of the particle. The SiC coating experiments were performed under systematically selected conditions to study the mechanism of flaw formation. The most important factor influencing flaw formation was found to be the mode of particle fluidization. Internal flaws were eliminated from the particles fabricated in a mass-production coater by controlling particle fluidization.
