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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.
M. Atarashi-Andoh, H. Amano, M. Ichimasa, Y. Ichimasa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 427-431
Biology | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22625
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The conversion rate of tritiated water (HTO) in plants' leaves to organically bound tritium (OBT) in their edible parts in the open air was obtained for several vegetables (komatsuna, radish and cherry tomato) during a chronic tritiated hydrogen (HT) release experiment at Chalk River in 1994. During the experiment, HT gas was continuously released to the atmosphere at the cultivated site for 12 days, and HTO and OBT concentrations in cultivated plants were measured. For plants' leaves, the conversion rate of HTO to OBT was about 0.2 (% hr−1), but it varied with their growth stage. A chamber experiment was also carried out in laboratory for comparison. The chamber experiment results showed that the conversion rate under artificial lights was half that in the field experiment.
