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Construction begins on Kairos’s fluoride salt–cooled test reactor
Earlier today, on a site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., that was formerly home to the K-33 Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Kairos Power marked the start of construction on its low-power demonstration reactor. Named Hermes, the 35-MWt test reactor claims status as the first Gen IV reactor to be approved for construction by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the first non–light water reactor to be permitted in the United States in more than 50 years.
T. Yamanishi, S. Konishi, T. Hayashi, Y. Kawamura, Y. Iwai, T. Maruyama, T. Kakuta, S. O'hira, H. Nakamura, K. Kobayashi, M. Nishi, T. Nagashima, M. Ohta
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 536-540
Fueling and Tritium Handling Technology (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963668
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An integrated fusion fuel loop was constructed. A palladium diffuser first treated a simulated plasma exhaust gas, that is a mixture of hydrogen isotopes and impurities such as helium and methane. A pure hydrogen isotopes stream was sent to a cascade of cryogenic distillation columns. The impurities were processed with a unit of an electrolytic reactor and a palladium diffuser. The integrated fusion fuel loop was thus demonstrated. A major result was that the electrolytic reactor processed methane successfully in a gas phase without using the catalysts. A laser Raman analysis system installed into the cryogenic distillation columns gave a set of analysis results with no time delay and no sampling gas exhaust. It was demonstrated that the laser Raman was a promising analysis system for the control of the fusion fuel loop.