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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
K. M. Song et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 48 | Number 1 | July-August 2005 | Pages 290-293
Technical Paper | Tritium Science and Technology - Tritium Handling Facilities | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A929
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The amount of the tritium removed from the Wolsong NPPs after the WTRF operation start was simulated through the modeling of the tritium balance between the Wolsong NPPs and the WTRF. Five WTRF operating scenarios were proposed and the profiles of the tritium level depending on these scenarios were obtained from the simulation. It was predicted that about 9×1017 Bq/yr of tritium would be removed in the beginning of WTRF operation. However the tritium levels in the moderators will be steadily reduced and saturated less than 3×1011 Bq/kg in 2013, and then about 2×1017 Bq/yr of tritium will be removed from the Wolsong NPPs by the WTRF operation.
