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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
A.V. Golubev, M.M. Khabibulin, S.E. Misatyuk, Y.A. Belot, A.Y. Aleinikov, V.P. Kovalenko, S.V. Mavrin, V.N. Golubeva, I.I. Solomatin, T.A. Kosheleva
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 474-477
Environment | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22634
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There are presented in the research results of HTO washout and the model of HTO atmosphere concentration in the vicinity of a long-term HT and HTO emission source. The site of the scavenging experiments was around a 30 m emission source. The sampling arcs were chosen at 150–300 m from the base of the source to minimize dry deposition on the precipitation collectors. To study dependence of scavenging of tritium on raindrops characteristics, an optical device was constructed and used to measure the distribution of the drop radii and velocities during the period of experiment. The washout model, used for assessments, takes into account dispersion, deposition and re-emission. The model of HTO wet deposition is taken into account kinetics of HTO exchange between vapor and liquid phase with parameters such as rain drop spectra, rain intensity, condensation-evaporation on drop's interface. Gauss type formulae for permanent emission source is used to calculate HTO atmospheric concentration. Meteorological data are used as input parameters for modeling.
