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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.
T. Hayashi, K. Kobayashi, Y. Iwai, T. Yamanishi, M. Nishi, K. Okuno, R.V. Carlson, R.S. Willms, D. Hyatt, B. Roybal
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 521-525
Fueling and Tritium Handling Technology (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963665
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A series of planned tritium release experiments into the Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA) tritium processing rooms (3000 m3), were performed under the US-Japan collaboration program at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). These experiments were carried out to acquire data on the behavior of tritium in an actual tritium facility. These experiments were performed safely with no impact on the environment or worker safety using 37 GBq (1 Ci). The results showed that the migration of tritium within the facility was dominated by the residual airflow in the room and reached a uniform value in 30 ~ 40 minutes. After restoring the normal once through ventilation (5 air changes per hour), room tritium levels decreased to background in less than 1 hour. Residual surface contamination was detected (max. 1 Bq/cm2 level). Residual contamination levels were found to be in order of decreasing contamination: linoleum > epoxy coating > acrylic resin > butyl rubber > stainless steel, from soaking results. The surface contamination increase as a result of the tritium release, was reduced to background with the normal ventilation within a few days.