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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
Shinsuke Tashiro, Takuya Ohno, Yuki Amano, Ryoichiro Yoshida, Koji Watanabe, Hithoshi Abe
Nuclear Technology | Volume 208 | Number 10 | October 2022 | Pages 1553-1561
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2022.2045179
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To contribute to the confinement safety evaluation of radioactive materials in a glove box (GB) fire accident, combustion tests with polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and polycarbonate (PC) as typical panel materials for the GB have been conducted with a relatively large-scale apparatus. As important data for evaluating confinement safety, the release ratio and the particle size distribution of soot generated from burned materials as source term data for analyzing the migration behavior of soot particles were obtained. Furthermore, the effect of soot loading on the rise of the different pressure (ΔP) of the high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter ΔP was also investigated. The results showed that the release ratio of the soot generated from the burned PC was about seven times as large as PMMA and the relatively large particles of the soot from PC were also larger than PMMA. In addition, by considering the effect of the loading volume of the soot particles in the relatively low loading region of the soot, it was found that the behavior of the rise of ΔP accompanied with soot loading could be represented uniformly regardless of the kinds of combustion materials.
