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Schwarzenegger slams Germany, praises U.S., on nuclear
Actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger recently criticized Germany for shutting down its remaining nuclear power plants last year. Speaking in June in his native Austria at the 2024 Austrian World Summit, a climate conference held in Vienna, Schwarzenegger noted the contradiction of the German government’s stated goal of cutting carbon emissions while simultaneously eliminating the clean-energy source of nuclear power.
T. Yoshida, N. Ezumi, K. Sawada, Y. Tanaka, M. Tanaka, K. Nishimura
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 3 | April 2015 | Pages 650-653
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T102
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Recovery of tritium in nuclear fusion plants is a key issue for safety. So far, the oxidation procedure using atmospheric pressure plasma is expected to the recovery method. In this study, to clarify the mechanism of hydrogen oxidation by plasma chemistry, we investigated the dependence of hydrogen combustion efficiency on gas flow rate and input power in the atmospheric pressure microwave plasma. It is found that the combustion efficiency depended on energy density of absorbed microwave power. Hence, the energy density is considered as a key parameter for combustion processes.
Also neutral gas temperatures in and outside of the plasma were measured by an optical emission spectroscopy method and thermocouple. The result shows that the neutral gas temperature in the plasma is much higher than the outside temperature of plasma. The high neutral gas temperature would affect to the combustion reaction.