Published November 1981 | Version v1
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Radiation damage program at Argonne National Laboratory as applied to fusion magnets and the intense pulsed neutron source

Creators

  • 1. Argonne National Lab., IL

Description

A program was undertaken to understand the effect of fast-neutron irradiation on superconducting NbTi and Nb3Sn. The results of irradiation temperature and initial sample metallurgy of Nb3Sn are shown where J/sub c/ is the critical current density, i.e., the current that the superconductor can carry before developing a voltage. In all cases, the radiation induced defects increase J/sub c/, but it is seen that the size of the increase is a strong function of the initial sample metallurgy, i.e., the initial value of J/sub c/, and the irradiation temperature

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Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Proceedings of the meeting on electrical insulators fusion magnets
Journal Page Range
p. 19.1-19.17.
Report number
CONF-801237--

Conference

Title
Meeting on electrical insulators for fusion magnets.
Dates
15 Dec 1980.
Place
Germantown, MD, USA.