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IAEA again raises global nuclear power projections
Noting recent momentum behind nuclear power, the International Atomic Energy Agency has revised up its projections for the expansion of nuclear power, estimating that global nuclear operational capacity will more than double by 2050—reaching 2.6 times the 2024 level—with small modular reactors expected to play a pivotal role in this high-case scenario.
IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi announced the new projections, contained in the annual report Energy, Electricity, and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2050 at the 69th IAEA General Conference in Vienna.
In the report’s high-case scenario, nuclear electrical generating capacity is projected to increase to from 377 GW at the end of 2024 to 992 GW by 2050. In a low-case scenario, capacity rises 50 percent, compared with 2024, to 561 GW. SMRs are projected to account for 24 percent of the new capacity added in the high case and for 5 percent in the low case.
M. C. Billone, Y. Y. Liu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 881-886
Tritium | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40144
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Models are developed to describe the steady-state percolation of tritium through the solid-breeder interconnected porosity to the purge stream, convection of tritium by the helium purge stream, and permeation of tritium through the structural material to the primary coolant system. Important parameters in the models are tritium generation rate, breeder microstructure, tritium species in the gas phase, temperatures, tritium diffusivities and permeabilities, and effectiveness of oxide barriers. The models are used to perform calculations for fusion-blanket conceptual designs. The results indicate that for isotopic swamping of the purge stream with protium and relatively high oxide impedance factors (∼100 for nonbreeder-side surfaces) the leakage rate from the blanket can be limited to less than 100 Ci/day for reasonable purge flow rates and pressure drops. However, for lower impedance factors and/or for decreased protium partial pressure in the purge, problems do arise with limiting the tritium leakage.