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SC Nuclear Summit focuses on V.C. Summer
The second annual South Carolina Nuclear Summit held last week featured utility executives and legislators from the state, as well as leaders from Brookfield Asset Management, which is being considered to restart construction on the two abandoned reactors at the V.C. Summer nuclear power plant in Fairfield County. The summit, at the University of South Carolina’s Colonial Life Arena, attracted more than 350 attendees. The event was hosted by the university’s Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing.
G. Pierini, R. Baratti, A.M. Polcaro, P.F. Ricci, A. Viola
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 1985 | Pages 2121-2126
Blanket and Process Engineering | Proceedings of the Second National Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Dayton, Ohio, April 30 to May 2, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24597
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The extraction of tritium from the liquid alloy 17Li83Pb has been examined taking into consideration the equations related to the design of “droplet spray” and “bubble” extractors in order to verify which are the higher tritium recovery efficiencies which can be realized so as to minimize the permeation of tritium into the water of the cooling system. As far as the droplet spray unit is concerned, the tritium extraction efficiency has been correlated to tritium pressure in the extractor, to the droplet radius and to the residence time of the droplets in the extractor. For the tritium desorption from the alloy, flowing countercurrent to a helium stream in a bubble extractor, the axial dispersion in the liquid and gaseous phases and the effects of gas phase expansion caused by reduced hydrostatic head in the extractor are taken into account. From the results of this study, both the bubble and spray droplet extractors seem to be very appropriate units for tritium recovery from the alloy. Moreover, in order to reach high extraction efficiencies for reducing the tritium permeation to the water cooling system, the spray droplet extractor appears more suitable.
