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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.
Masaru Todoriki, Atsuyuki Suzuki
Nuclear Technology | Volume 120 | Number 1 | October 1997 | Pages 81-85
Technical Note | Enrichment and Reprocessing System | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35433
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The laser-induced thermal lens oscillation process, which can be generated in an organic solution by argon-ion laser irradiation is studied to investigate the possibility of its application for monitoring of tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP) concentration in nuclear fuel reprocessing. The oscillation process is a nonlinear dynamical system whose states depend on three control parameters: laser beam power, depth from solution surface to a laser beam irradiation position, and concentration of solvent, i.e., TBP. From a series of experiments, it is found that a transition between different states is distinctly related to the concentration of TBP solution. From this result, a new on-line monitoring method of solvent concentration is proposed. This method indicates the technique’s potential as a viable on-line analytical instrument in solvent extraction processes of nuclear fuel reprocessing.