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20/10/2009
A place for composites in tomorrow's reactors

One of the qualities of silicon-carbide composites is their heat resistance, which could make them compatible for use in the fuel cladding of future reactors. Carbon oxidizes and deteriorates above 500°C, so it is replaced by silicon carbide (SiC) in composite materials. SiC/SiCf composites are more expensive to produce than carbon fibers, so their use is restricted to specific applications involving very high temperatures and oxidizing environments, such as the jet nozzles of certain fighter aircraft or the tiles making up the thermal protection system of the US space shuttle....

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Nanosciences
 
Understanding new laws of physics

Stimulated by the race towards miniaturization in the microelectronics industry, research in Nanosciences is conducted at two departments within the Physical Sciences Division: Iramis in Saclay and the Inac in Grenoble.

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InVivo imaging platform
 
Life Sciences Division

In-vivo imaging platforms in the Paris Region. Along with other research agencies, the Life sciences division is complementing the technical resources located in the Paris area (and including the imaging facilities of the Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot in Orsay) with two new imaging platforms, thus taking an active part in the formation of an European centre of excellence....

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Antares
 
Searching cosmic neutrinos

The last two lines of the ANTARES detector were connected and powered at a depth of 2500 m on the Mediterranean seabed during the night of May 30, 2008. This brings the number of lines to twelve and completes the construction phase of the largest underwater neutrino telescope ever built.

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