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Relevance
of the project
Relevance to the objectives of the 4th Program and to the specific objectives of the direction of research The project proposal New materials, from intermetallic compounds, used as irradiation targets for gamma sources with iridium and cobalt, employed in industry and medicine for PN II project IV Partenaires is framed in research direction 7- Materials, processes and innovative products; 7.4. Nuclear technologies; 7.4.6. The obtaining of new materials by and for nuclear technologies.
The objectives of the project are according to the general objectives of project 4 “ the enhancement of CDI system ability from Romania to accumulate knowledge, results and experience a first grade in high scientific and technological domains and to carry out and transfer it to the economic social environment for the enhancement of its competitiveness”, “The optimal concentration and exploitation of scientific and technologic potential with high level available in Romania”, “the encouragement of composition, development, integration and consolidation in the extended domains of networks of research whose activity reach the excellence level, accepted according to the international direction; Romania’ enhance capacity to assure the performance partners in the collaboration within the scientific and technical projects and in the international scientific alliances” and “ the integration and consolidation of CD network institution in the extended domains.
The project is according to the specific objectives of project 4 “the enhancement’ assets of activities of CD units and institutions from Romania, which assure the promotion, the development and the concentrating of human and material resources of integrated network of specialized, approved and acknowledged institutions and organisms, which will assure the scientific and technical competencies and the subsidies demanded for the advance of scientific or technologic domain and which should contain: CD national institute, a profiled centre/department from universities, laboratories for experiments and tests”.
The project is according with the specific objectives of research-development complex projects because it is realized by the scientific activities and great complexity technological growing, which include fundamental applied research, with competitive level and are deployed in common from a representative consortium at national level for the scientific domain of peak technologies driving the integration, the enhancement of quality and the level of performance of CD activities deployed in the frame of consortium; the development of associations for long time among institutions participant, including this of public-private type; the equal development of activities and of infrastructures of the members from 4 prestigious institutions, with a great and rich experience in the research of materials, in the multidisciplinary and complementary approach of the problems. By the oriented effort in order to obtain and characterize the new classes of compounds with applications in the nuclear domain, for the complex approach of the correlations composition/structure/properties, and by the application for obtaining specific technique with impact act on the materials properties and implicit of the specific applications, the activities of the projects are enclosed in the thematic areas S&T promoted according to the PC7 project, 4.2. Materials
The scope of the project is the establishment and the test of the necessary knowledge, technologies and the methods of materials’ characterization for obtaining targets from intermetallic compound with Co and Ir with Al. SCN Pitesti as fabricant of iridium and cobalt gamma sources for industrial and medical appliance has initiated this project proposal with the scope to change the metallic targets from cobalt and iridium with targets from intermetallic compounds of active metal with aluminium, for the improvement of the quality of cobalt and iridium gamma sources, the decrease of irradiation time and the material costs
Valorification
of results and potential beneficiaries.
The main beneficiary of the results obtained following the
research activity of the IRCOAL company is SCN Pitesti which shall produce
gamma irradiation sources of Ir and Co for the industry and medicine with
irradiation targets out of the inter-metallic compounds of CoAl and IrAl.
Dissemination
of results
The growth of excellence and scientific visibility of the company shall be realized through:
- Dissemination of the scientific results through communications and/or participations to techno-scientific national and international meetings (, scientific articles, web page, presentation CD etc);
- The publication of the scientific results obtained during the achievement of the excellence project in magazines rated ISI; J. Alloys and Compounds, J. of Materials Science, J. Nuclear Materials;
- The elaboration and heading of project proposals with new scientific orientations within the national and international competitions on CD programes of the type CEEX, SECURITATE, INVENT, NATO, EUREKA, FP7 etc;
- Forwarding patent proposals on the theme approached within the excellence project; the development of the educational support by editing university courses, the introduction in the university curricula of the technologies for the obtaining of the intermetallic compounds and of the irradiation technologies
Economic impact
For SCN Pitesti as manufacturer of gamma sources of Ir and Co used in
industry and medicine, the economic impact will be substantial. This will lead to the abrupt shortening of the irradiation time for the obtaining of pre-established activities. Thus, the time for the functioning of the reactor may be used more efficient, there can be reduced the dependence of the reactor stops and can be assured a better and faster correlation with the beneficiary’s requirements. Practically, the irradiation can be done in any of the reactor’s channel. There can be conceived economic schemes for the use of the irradiation channels , such as short irradiation in one of the central channels with high flux, followed by saturation storage in one of the outer channels in order to ensure a minimum amount of radioactive material for the rhythmically deliveries. There can also be obtained an important reduction of material costs, Ir being a precious material and Co a strategic material.
Social
impact.
It can
represent a course support for the master “Materials and nuclear
technologies” from Pitesti University; during the development of the project there shall be employed young scientists; new working places shall be created.
Environmental
impact.
The
working activities with closed sources are reputed by standards
specified in Law nr. 111/1996 and Law nr. 193/2003 regarding the safe development of the nuclear activities, Government Decision nr. 1627/2007 regarding the approval of the organization and functioning rule of the National Committee for The Nuclear Activities Control, so that the impact on nature is zero.
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