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Canada begins regulatory approval process for spent fuel repository
Canada has formally initiated the regulatory process of licensing its proposed deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel, with the country’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announcing that it has submitted an initial project description to the Canadian government.
According to the NWMO, the initial project description is a foundational document, detailing the repository’s purpose, need, and expected benefits and explaining how the project will be implemented. It also provides a preliminary assessment of potential impacts and describes measures to avoid or mitigate them. The NWMO is the not-for-profit organization responsible for managing Canada’s nuclear waste.
Joan M. Miller, Lakshman Rodrigo, Joseph A. Senohrabek
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 700-704
Tritium Processing | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30486
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The HITEX (High Temperature Isotopic Exchange) process has been proposed as a simple, reliable process to detritiate impurities in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) exhaust flow. Experimental testing of the HITEX process has demonstrated decontamination factors of up to ∼106 for a tritiated-methane impurity stream. Initial results investigating the effect of the hydrogen swamping ratio, gas recirculation rate, gas composition and initial tritium level on the system performance are reported.
