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Liftoff report lifts the lid on cost and risk in push to nth-of-a-kind reactors
The Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Advanced Nuclear report that was released in March 2023 by the Department of Energy called for five to 10 signed reactor contracts for at least one reactor design by 2025. Now, 18 months have passed, and despite the word “resurgence” in media reports on the U.S. nuclear power industry, 2025 is fast approaching with no contracts signed.
Y. Matsuda, N. Yokogawa, H. Yoshida, S. Konishi, Y. Naruse, F. Sakai, M. Yorozu, T. Ide, J. Mitsui
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 585-589
Tritium Processing | Proceedings of the Third Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1-6, 1988) | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25197
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
At the Tritium Process Laboratory (TPL) in the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, the Thermal Diffusion process is applied to enrich and recover tritium diluted by the operation and experiments of the other apparatus installed in the gloveboxes. The apparatus is required to process 200-liter of hydrogen isotope mixture containing up to lg tritium by batch operation and enrich tritium to 90%. Preliminary studies were performed numerically as well as experimentally, and good agreement was obtained. Based on the results, the apparatus was designed. Major components are four 2.5m-high diffusion columns, reservoirs, pumps, active metal beds and a mass spectrometer. Whole apparatus was installed in the glovebox in the TPL by the end of 1987. The function of the apparatus was tested with H-D mixtures.