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U.K.’s NWS gets input from young people on geological disposal
Nuclear Waste Services, the radioactive waste management subsidiary of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has reported on its inaugural year of the National Youth Forum on Geological Disposal forum. NWS set up the initiative, in partnership with the environmental consultancy firm ARUP and the not-for-profit organization The Young Foundation, to give young people the chance to share their views on the government’s plans to develop a geological disposal facility (GDF) for the safe, secure, and long-term disposal of radioactive waste.
Susumu Ninomiya, Fumio Ohtsuka, Hiromichi Nei, Osamu Takikawa, Mituo Harata
Nuclear Technology | Volume 65 | Number 3 | June 1984 | Pages 395-401
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33394
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A program was carried out to develop a sodium vapor pressure measuring system using beta-alumina ceramics for use in developing sodium vapor traps and monitoring sodium mist in cover gas for fast breeder reactors (FBRs) and test facilities. The sensor device was tested in a vacuum glass capsule. Its output agreed well with theoretical results. Moreover, it proved to have the capability of measuring a lower vapor pressure near 10−5 Torr without any calibrations. The measuring system, consisting of a beta-alumina sensor device, gas circulating pump, gas heater, and mist trap, is applicable to FBR plants and test facilities that contain much sodium mist and to a transient monitoring system. This system was tested in an isothermal sodium vapor circulation test loop under conditions involving much sodium mist.