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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.
K. Hasegawa, H. Fusumae, M. Matsuyama, K. Watanabe
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 500-505
Safety; Measurement and Accountability; Operation and Maintenance; Application | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29796
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The kinetics of the UV-stimulated HT oxidation in oxygen atmosphere was studied in combination with computer simulation consisting of 30 elementary reactions. The rate of HTO formation was observed to be proportional to the pressure of O2 and molar fraction of HT with respect to total hydrogen pressure (H2 + HT), and 1/2 order to total hydrogen pressure. The simulation resulted in the same pressure dependence as the observed one. The contributions of elementary reactions to the HTO formation were calculated, assuming steady states for intermediate species. It was revealed that the UV-stimulated HT oxidation is initiated by photolysis of O2 to O(3P) (λ < 242 nm) and subsequently formed O3 and OH play important roles in the HTO formation. The present results suggest that the conversion of tritium gas to tritiated water is considerably enhanced in the stratosphere owing to the presence of UV photons having shorter wavelengths than 242 nm.
