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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Lidia Matei, C. Postolache
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 3 | October 2011 | Pages 1021-1024
Contamination and Waste | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12589
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The Tritium Laboratory from NIPNE, Romania has been commissioned as part of Radioisotope Research and Production Center in 1976. The Tritium Laboratory is in the refurbishment process. A project POS Priority Axis 2 and several national research projects financially support the upgrading works, which involves dismantling of the used equipment and facilities.In this paper the preliminary refurbishment activities are described as follows:- Radiological features for inventory of radioactive and non-radioactive wastes resulted from the cleanup activities- Decommissioning of the used equipments (glass tritium manifolds, facility for removal of labile tritium, facilities for radio chromatographic assays and endurance tests)- cleaning up of boxes and hoods.The new facilities have been introduced in cleaned boxes and radiochemical hoods.
