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Teenager’s school project achieves plasma
Cesare Mencarini’s recent extended project qualification (EPQ) earned him an “A” for his studies in the United Kingdom—and became, it is believed, to be the first nuclear reactor built in a school environment.
T. Hayashi, T. Suzuki, M. Yamada, M. Nishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 510-514
Fueling and Tritium Handling Technology (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963663
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The accountancy of tritium stored in the Zirconium-Cobalt (ZrCo) bed with 25 g of tritium storage capacity has been investigated by “in-bed” gas flowing calorimetric method for a few years. This type of calorimetry uses the temperature raise of helium (He) gas circulated through a secondary coil line installed in the ZrCo tritide. Recently, the basic calorimetric characteristics was demonstrated well within 1 % accuracy of the ITER requirement using 22 g of tritium under actual storage system conditions, such as hydrogenation-dehydrogenation of tritium, long-term storage (3He accumulation inside of tritide vessel), and DT mixture storage. Based on the experimental data, a 100 g of tritium storage bed (ITER size) was designed and its calorimetric performance was discussed.