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It’s almost been a full year since the American Nuclear Society held its inaugural section of Nuclear 101, a comprehensive certificate course on the basics of the nuclear field. Offered at the 2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo, that first sold-out course marked a massive milestone in the Society’s expanding work in professional development and certification.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 707-712
Tritium Properties and Interactions with Material | Proceedings of the Third Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1-6, 1988) | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25217
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The safety concerns resulting from tritium implantation into vanadium and vanadium alloys have been studied. Tests were conducted to measure the physical constants that determine permeation and inventory in these materials. Surface recombination coefficients, enhancement factors due to plasma sputtering, and the diffusion constants were measured. To determine the implications of these results, application was made to the TITAN-I fusion reactor design. For this design, the tritium permeation rate and inventory buildup in the first wall was calculated for a range of surface conditions on the coolant side.