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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.
W.M. Shu, Y. Kawakubo, S. O'hira, Y. Oya, T. Hayashi, H. Nakamura, Y. Iwai, M.F. Nishi, C.A. Gentile, C.H. Skinner, S. Langish, G. Guttadora, A. Carpe, K.M. Young
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 690-694
Decontamination and Waste | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22675
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Tritium decontamination of the surface of plasma facing components used during the deuterium-tritium (D-T) phase of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) was investigated using an ultra violet (UV) laser with a wavelength of 193 nm, a pulse energy of 200 mJ, a pulse duration of 25 ns and a beam size of 2.3 cm by 0.7 cm. Tritium was released immediately after the samples were irradiated by the UV laser. An initial spike of tritium release was observed within 40 seconds for each of three types of TFTR D-T plasma facing components. Most of the decrease in surface tritium concentration occurred in the first minute of UV laser irradiation. In a second experiment, the UV laser was focused to irradiate the deposited layers on JT-60 graphite tile that had experienced hydrogen plasma operation. The effective absorption coefficient and the ablation threshold for the JT-60 codeposits irradiated by the UV laser were determined to be 1.9 µm−1 and 1.0 J/cm2, respectively. An erosion rate of 1.1 µm/pulse was reached at a laser energy density of 7.6 J/cm2.
