An experimental test of the contribution of Mrozowski Cracks to the SANS from nuclear graphites

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The life-limiting feature of AGR power reactors is probably radiation damage to the graphite moderators. This proposal (part of a collaborative EPSRC programme - Fundamentals of Graphite) seeks to apply SANS to study the porosity and how it links to radiation damage. Previous SANS measurements on AGR graphites have shown fractal behaviour over a wide Q range - yielding power law scattering with a non-integer index changed by irradiation. This suggests that the SANS is dominated by a single mechanism e.g. by Mrozowski cracks which are created in microcrystalline graphites by anisotropic contraction along the c direction during cooling. Two approaches are proposed to test this hypothesis. (1) contrast matching using H/D-toluene demonstrating how much of the porosity is linked to the surface; (2) variation with temperature, demonstrating the link with the anisotropic thermal expansion.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088656
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088656
Provenance
Creator Dr Daniel Roach; Dr Zhanna Mileeva; Mr David Wilkinson; Professor Keith Ross; Dr Marsden; Dr Abbie Jones
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-03-01T08:48:50Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-05-30T08:25:44Z