The reactors in the group currently include: 5 Hot wall viscous flow reactors equipped with an in situ quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) to monitor film growth and etching. One of these reactors can ...

Their findings raise some concerns whilst reducing others; for example, quartz crystals in concrete can heal themselves, potentially allowing some reactors to run for longer than initially thought ...

researchers observed that quartz particles shift at the microscopic level, slowly repairing cracks and defects that develop over time. This means that nuclear reactor concrete might not ...

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