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Gov. Pritzker issues EO to boost nuclear energy in Illinois
Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker issued a new executive order (EO) on February 18 directing both the Illinois Power Agency and the Illinois Commerce Commission to issue a notice of intent (NOI) to potential developers of new nuclear power plants.
The signing of that EO took place on the same day Pritzker delivered his 2026 State of the State address, in which he set a goal of building at least 2 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity in the state.
A.B. Antoniazzi, W.T. Shmayda, R.A. Surette
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 867-871
Material; Storage and Processing | doi.org/10.13182/FST21-867
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Thermal desorption spectroscopy was investigated as a means of measuring the tritium content and the nature of tritiated adsorbed species on stainless steel surfaces. Thermal desorption spectroscopy has been used to determine the effect of a helium glow discharge on a tritiated, 316 SS, surface. HTO proved to be the main desorption species. Glow discharge cleaning has been observed to reduce the amount of sorbed tritium by a factor of ≥ 250.
