Week 39 of 2023

Three nuclear energy innovation news!

🎱 The Chi-Nu physics experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory (US) delivers its results. Over the span of a year, it measured the energy spectrum of neutrons emitted from neutron-induced fission in uranium-238, uranium-235 and plutonium-239. These measurements, of unprecedented quality, are foundational to inform and improve reactor models.

🖥 Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory (US) prepare to use Aurora, the laboratory's upcoming exascale supercomputer. Built in partnership with Intel Corporation and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, it is capable of delivering 2 exaflops of computing power - 2 billion billion calculations per second. Its main purpose will be to run multiphysics simulation of entire cores at the finest length scales.

🔩 Otium Capital and the Made in France team of Arnaud Montebourg announce the creation of Alfeor (France), a new equipment manufacturer for the nuclear industry. Their objective is to acquire, consolidate, and develop subcontractors in order to bring together their high-tech expertise and high added-value capabilities under an independent intermediate-sized enterprise.

👨‍🎓 Paper of the week: "A Nitride-Reinforced NbMoTaWHfN Refractory High-Entropy Alloy with Potential Ultra-High-Temperature Engineering Applications", Engineering (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2023.06.008

👉 Notable improvements in properties of alloys able to reach up to 1,200° C.

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