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World Bank, IAEA partner to fund nuclear energy
The World Bank and the International Atomic Energy Agency signed an agreement last week to cooperate on the construction and financing of advanced nuclear projects in developing countries, marking the first partnership since the bank ended its ban on funding for nuclear energy projects.
Masahiko Utsuro, Mitsuo Nakai, Hideki Kohri, Takeshi Ohta, Takumi Konno, Asako Igashira, Mamoru Fujiwara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 7 | October 2022 | Pages 513-527
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2062098
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A test experiment to polarize tritium nuclei to develop a polarized deuterium-tritium (D-T) laser fusion concept is proposed in which a ferromagnetic complex with a high internal magnetic field is used to polarize tritium nuclei on physisorbed D-T molecules with an internal β-decay heat load in a D-T target. Heteronuclear hydrogen deuteride (HD) is used to conduct the measurements herein instead of as in typical D-T–based experiments. As proof-of-concept experimentation, the adsorption and desorption characteristics of HD are examined on Prussian blue ferromagnetic analogue Ni3[Fe(CN)6]2 at temperatures of 77 K and around 23 K. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis of the ferromagnetic complex-mediated adsorption of HD onto activated carbon pellets at 10 K is conducted step by step using a multilocular probe cell that had been simplified to give a single-tube probe cell. The resulting 1H NMR spectra are compared with 19F NMR spectra obtained for reference on a Kel-F probe cell wall. Slight differences between the calculated NMR frequency from the gyromagnetic ratio and the actually observed NMR frequency are also discussed.