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Can hydrogen be the transportation fuel in an otherwise nuclear economy?
Let’s face it: The global economy should be powered primarily by nuclear power. And it probably will by the end of this century, with a still-significant assist from renewables and hydro. Once nuclear systems are dominant, the costs come down to where gas is now; and when carbon emissions are reduced to a small portion of their present state, it will become obvious that most other sources are only good in niche settings. I mean, why use small modular reactors to load-follow when they can just produce that power instead of buffering it?
Hajime Aoyama, Shunsuke Hosokawa, Masao Matsuyama, Tetsutaro Seki, Takeshi Itoh, Kuniaki Watanabe, Kazuyoshi Ishikawa, Katsuyoshi Tatenuma
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 588-592
Device, Facility, and Operation | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22656
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For a routine cleaning and a primary decontamination of tritiated contaminants in the case of decommissioning, a decontamination robot based on dry method utilizing ozone gas treatment was developed. The robot sized of 720(W)x850(D)x1,050(H) mm with a remote and automatic system consists mainly of 5 different part, a flat decontamination port of about 1,000 cm2 for ozone gas exposure with a heater and surrounding rubber curtain to isolate the inside circumstance, an ozone gas generator utilizing creeping discharge method, a gas cooler for the hot air containing tritiated vapor to be trapped, an adsorption vessel packing molecular-sieves for tritium trap, and a circulation pump. The amount of suction air is larger than that of the exposure air, therefore, non of the contaminants are scattered out from the adsorption port, and this is one of the main characteristic of the robot.