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NEUTRON FIELD OF THE EARTH, ORIGIN AND DYNAMICS

  • Kuzhevskij, B.M.;Nechaev, O.Yu.;Panasyuk, M.I.;Sigaeva, E.A.;Volodichev, N.N.;Zakharov, V.A.
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • 제26권3호
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    • pp.315-319
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    • 2001
  • It is shown, that both cosmic radiation (external source) and natural radioactive gases (inner source) are sources of neutrons near the Earth crust. Correlation between the Earth crust dynamics and variations of thermal and slow neutron flux near the Earth surface is studied. It is shown, that variations of neutron flux near the Earth crust can be used for short-term predicting of natural hazards.

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Content and Distribution of Transition Metals and Rare Earth Elements in Magnetically and Mechanically Separated Brown Coal Ash

  • Malikov, Sh.R.;Pikul, V.P.;Mukhamedshina, N.M.;Sandalov, V.N.;Kudiratov, S.;Ibragimova, E.M.
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • 제18권3호
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    • pp.365-369
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    • 2013
  • Coal ash is known to contain a noticeable amount of valuable elements, including transition metals and lanthanides. Therefore it is quite actual problem to extract them for metallurgy and other applications. This paper presents the results of high gradient magnetic and mechanical separation, microscopy, element analyses and optical spectroscopy of brown coal ash taken from the combustion camera and chimney-stalk of Angren thermal power station. The separated magnetic fraction was 3.4 wt.%, where the content of Fe in ferrospheres increased to 58 wt.%. The highest contents of Fe and rare earth elements were found in the fine fractions of $50-100{\mu}m$. Optical absorption spectroscopy of water solutions of the magnetic fractions revealed $Fe^{2+}$ and $Fe^{3+}$ ions in the ratio of ~1:1. The separated coal ash could be used for cleaning of technological liquid waste by means of the high gradient magnetic field.

Radiation-induced transformation of Hafnium composition

  • Ulybkin, Alexander;Rybka, Alexander;Kovtun, Konstantin;Kutny, Vladimir;Voyevodin, Victor;Pudov, Alexey;Azhazha, Roman
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제51권8호
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    • pp.1964-1969
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    • 2019
  • The safety and efficiency of nuclear reactors largely depend on the monitoring and control of nuclear radiation. Due to the unique nuclear-physical characteristics, Hf is one of the most promising materials for the manufacturing of the control rods and the emitters of neutron detectors. It is proposed to use the Compton neutron detector with the emitter made of Hf in the In-core Instrumentation System (ICIS) for monitoring the neutron field. The main advantages of such a detector in comparison the conventional β-emission sensors are the possibility of reaching of a higher cumulative radiation dose and the absence of signal delays. The response time of the detection is extremely important when a nuclear reactor is operating near its critical operational parameters. Taking Hf as an example, the general principles for calculating the chains of materials transformation under neutron irradiation are reported. The influence of 179m1Hf on the Hf composition changing dynamics and the process of transmutants' (Ta, W) generation were determined. The effect of these processes on the absorbing properties of Hf, which inevitably predetermine the lifetime of the detector and its ability to generate a signal, is estimated.

Atomistic simulations of defect accumulation and evolution in heavily irradiated titanium for nuclear-powered spacecraft

  • Hai Huang;Xiaoting Yuan;Longjingrui Ma;Jiwei Lin;Guopeng Zhang;Bin Cai
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제55권6호
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    • pp.2298-2304
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    • 2023
  • Titanium alloys are expected to become one of the candidate materials for nuclear-powered spacecraft due to their excellent overall performance. Nevertheless, atomistic mechanisms of the defect accumulation and evolution of the materials due to long-term exposure to irradiation remain scarcely understood by far. Here we investigate the heavy irradiation damage in a-titanium with a dose as high as 4.0 canonical displacements per atom (cDPA) using atomistic simulations of Frenkel pair accumulation. Results show that the content of surviving defects increases sharply before 0.04 cDPA and then decreases slowly to stabilize, exhibiting a strong correlation with the system energy. Under the current simulation conditions, the defect clustering fraction may be not directly dependent on the irradiation dose. Compared to vacancies, interstitials are more likely to form clusters, which may further cause the formation of 1/3<1210> interstitial-type dislocation loops extended along the (1010) plane. This study provides an important insight into the understanding of the irradiation damage behaviors for titanium.

MEVVA ion Source And Filtered Thin-Film Deposition System

  • Liu, A.D.;Zhang, H.X.;Zhang, T.H.;Zhang, X.Y.;Wu, X.Y.;Zhang, S.J.;Li, Q.
    • Journal of Korean Vacuum Science & Technology
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    • 제6권2호
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    • pp.55-57
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    • 2002
  • Metal-vapor-vacuum-arc ion source is an ideal source for both high current metal ion implanter and high current plasma thin-film deposition systems. It uses the direct evaporation of metal from surface of cathode by vacuum arc to produce a very high flux of ion plasmas. The MEVVA ion source, the high-current metal-ion implanter and high-current magnetic-field-filtered plasma thin-film deposition systems developed in Beijing Normal University are introduced in this paper.

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