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India’s PFBR attains criticality at last
Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed it “a proud moment for India” when on April 6 the 500-MWe, sodium-cooled Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) achieved initial criticality. This milestone, which comes some 22 years after the continually delayed PFBR project began, marks India’s entrance into the second stage of its three-stage nuclear program, which has the ultimate goal of supporting the country’s nuclear power program with its significant thorium reserves.
M.R. Galley, S.K. Sood, P.J. Gierszewski, M. Schaub, A.I. Miller, P.J. Dinner
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 822-827
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-A25236
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The Next European Torus (NET), will require a supply of tritium fuel that may not be entirely available from external sources. One option for breeding tritium within the machine itself is the Aqueous Lithium Salt Blanket (ALSB). In this paper, processes for recovering tritium from the blanket water are compared. These processes provide 90% detritiation of 500 kg/h of light water feed at an average concentration of 10 Ci/kg, yielding 0.5 g T/h. The recommended system uses a combination of water distillation (DW), vapor phase catalytic exchange (VPCE) and cryogenic distillation (CD). The DW unit is comparable in size to the D2O upgrader at the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station and the CD unit is similar to that provided for the Chalk River Tritium Extraction Plant.