Description
The specific purposes that plastics serve in this field include all the technological uses common to instrument and ap- paratus construction in other lines of endeavor, and many that are unique to nuclear work. The latter fall generally into the following seven categories: (1) detecting, measuring, count- ing, and monitoring nuclear radiation; (2) containment and isolation of radiation sources, and shielding of personnel and instruments from radiation effects; (3) special high-voltage electrical insulation; (4) special low-voltage and eddy-cur- rent insulation; (5) electrical insulating and mechanical func tions in large electromagnet construction; (6) materials for high-vacuum systems; (7) highly special optical components. Use is made of all plastics that are commercially produced,
but some of them inevitably enjoy much wider use than others because of more suitable properties, greater stamina under difficult conditions, and ease of application.
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