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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.
Etsuo Ishitsuka, Hiroshi Kawamura, Oarai Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Narita-cho, Oarai-machi, Higashi-Ibaraki-gun, Ibaraki-ken 311-13, Japan, 81-29-264-8417, Yukio Hishinuma, Mutsumi Nakamura, Katsuyoshi Tatenuma
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 647-651
Tritium Processing | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30477
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Tritium release apparatus with the function of pulse mode heating were developed by using the infrared ray furnace to demonstrate the pulse mode heating of tritium breeder blanket for the fusion reactor. This apparatus was installed in the glove box of the beryllium PIE facility that constructed the hot- laboratory of Japan Materials Testing Reactor. The performance of this apparatus is that the minimum time of rapid heating up to 1015 °C is about 119 s and maximum heating rate reached at 1000 °C/min. The maximum temperature is depended on the crucible materials because of the differences for infrared ray absorption. The conversion efficiency of the gaseous water by ceramic electrolysis cell is above 99.99 %. The pulse mode heating of the tritium breeder and neutron multiplier materials of the blanket could be demonstrate by using this apparatus.
