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TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process
Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.
TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, formally establishing its intention to enter the U.K. generic design assessment (GDA) process. This is TerraPower’s first step in deployment of its Natrium technology—a 345-MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage unit—on the international stage.
Mario Dalle Donne
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 9 | Number 3 | May 1986 | Pages 503-505
Technical Note | Tritium System | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24738
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A new interpretation of the in situ TRIO experiment on tritium release from γ-LiAlO2 ceramic particles is presented. It is suggested that, due to a very small ceramic particle radius (R = 0.1 µm), the release-controlling phenomenon is desorption of tritium-containing molecules from the particle surface rather than tritium diffusivity in the particle. This hypothesis eliminates the large discrepancy with previous tritium diffusivity experiments with large particles, where the time-controlling phenomenon is clearly diffusivity.
