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The low temperature irradiation facility of the Munich Research Reactor allows performing reactor irradiations at sample temperatures below 6 K. In addition to the general experimental setup of the facility the paper describes in detail a particular experiment: the in situ measurement of the ultimate shear strength of various organic compounds being candidate insulator materials for a future use in the superconducting coils of a fusion reactor. First results indicate that all of these composites suffer a severe radiation induced degradation and that the effect of a thermal treatment at room temperature on their mechanical properties is small.
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Gerstenberg, H., Krähling, E., Katheder, H., Söll, M. (1994). Reactor Irradiations at Temperatures Below 6 K. In: Reed, R.P., Fickett, F.R., Summers, L.T., Stieg, M. (eds) Advances in Cryogenic Engineering Materials . An International Cryogenic Materials Conference Publication, vol 40. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9053-5_147
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