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ARPA-E announces $40 million to develop transmutation technologies for UNF
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) announced $40 million in funding to develop cutting-edge technologies to enable the transmutation of used nuclear fuel into less-radioactive substances. According to ARPA-E, the new initiative addresses one of the agency’s core goals as outlined by Congress: to provide transformative solutions to improve the management, cleanup, and disposal of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel.
Yasuhisa Oya, Misaki Sato, Kenta Yuyama, Masanori Hara, Yuji Hatano, Masao Matsuyama, Takumi Chikada
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 2 | September 2015 | Pages 358-361
Technical Paper | Proceedings of TOFE-2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-931
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Dynamics of tritium recovery using CuO catalyst and water bubbler was studied as a function of gas flow rate and CuO temperature. The rate constant of tritiated water formation by CuO catalyst at the temperature above 500 K was determined to be k [s-1] = 5.4×105 exp (-0.65 eV / kBT). For the flow rate less than 50 sccm, it was found that the reaction rate will be controlled by the desorption rate of HTO on the surface of CuO. These results were applied for the design of tritium removal system at radiation-controlled area. It was concluded that the reactor tubing with 1.0 meter length at 600 K will be suitable to reduce the tritium concentration less than 1/1000 and the longer reactor tubing will be required if the operation temperature will be lower than 600 K.