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Solar, wind output surpass nuclear in first half of 2024
The combined energy generation in the United States from solar and wind during the first half of the year was more than that of nuclear plants for the first time, according to data from energy think tank Ember.
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Song Jiangfeng, Huang Guoqiang, Huang Zhiyong, Chen Chang’an, Luo Deli
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 3 | April 2015 | Pages 576-579
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T83
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Tritium is a fuel and the most mobile and significant radioactive sources for ITER. In the design of TBM tritium systems of China, the safety design of common chemistry engineering system and tritium safety design are considered at the same time. It is necessary to avoid a continuous increase of the tritium concentration in the coolant and to reduce the tritium permeation into the secondary coolant as well as environment. In this paper, the design and tritium permeation analysis of China HCCB TBM port cell are introduced. At first, the primary design considerations of the system are given to fulfill the engineering demand of the ordinary system (non radioactive system). Then the tritium permeation, the release analysis, the effect of tritium release to the people and environment are discussed. From the calculation of the tritium permeation in the systems housed in the port cell, tritium permeation barrier is needed in the higher temperature components such as the reduction bed and the heater.