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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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TVA to file for Clinch River SMR construction permit by June
In a Q&A posted on TVA’s website last week about a “new nuclear heyday,” Bob Deacy shared his vision for the Clinch River nuclear site in Oak Ridge, Tenn.—and some news about next steps for the company’s small modular reactor plans.
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s senior vice president for the Clinch River project, Deacy described his vision for up to four SMRs built on plots smaller than a football field with state-of-the-art digital equipment and a newly trained workforce providing reliable 24/7 power to the grid.
Gheorghe Bulubasa, Alina Niculescu, Maria Craciun, Ciprian Bucur, George Ana, Anisia Bornea
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 4 | May 2025 | Pages 310-314
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2353967
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
At present, there are several methods for hydrogen isotope separation (in elemental form), the most important being cryogenic distillation, thermal diffusion, and gas chromatography. However, these methods have a series of drawbacks, namely, high complexity, high energy consumption, and associated costs. Taking into account these disadvantages, a promising separation method is the one based on solid metallic membranes because of its advantages like low energy consumption and reduced complexity. This method uses the difference between some of the isotopes’ properties, namely, solubility; diffusivity; and, implicitly, permeability. This work envisages the integration of an isotopic separation module, based on membrane permeation, on the exhaust gas line from the current experimental rigs employed at ICSI, to recover and store the hydrogen isotopes. We obtained a maximum separation factor of 5.66 for the lowest studied concentration of deuterium in the hydrogen isotopic mixture (0.05 atomic fraction). The results show that hydrogen isotope separation is possible using palladium/silver membranes. Still, the throughput of the permeated gas is very low, and a significant number of stages will be necessary to obtain the desired purity (above 99.5%).