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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.
Yasunori Iwai, Takumi Hayashi, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Masataka Nishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 48 | Number 1 | July-August 2005 | Pages 460-463
Technical Paper | Tritium Science and Technology - Containment, Safety, and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A965
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At the Tritium Process Laboratory (TPL) in Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), the three-dimensional "TBEHAVIOR" code has been developed and improved to understand initial tritium behavior and tritium confinement performance in a ventilated room of a fusion reactor in case of tritium leak event. The purpose of this study was mainly focused to; 1) investigate the effect of atmospheric exchange time per hour on the tritium confinement performance in an actual scaled tritium handling room after off-normal tritium release; 2) investigate the effect of atmospheric exchange time per hour on the time necessary for detecting tritium release; 3) investigate the suitable location of exhaust ducts and alarm monitors. The simulated room used in the present analysis is approximately 3000 m3 of tritium handling room (12.00 mW, 29.00 mD and 8.50 mH) with six supply ducts and six exhaust ducts. Atmospheric exchange time per hour is changed as a parameter from 0.67 to 3.33 times per hour.
