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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?
Eriko Tega, Seishi Akahori, Kenji Okuno, Shinichi Sasaki, Takenori Suzuki, Kenjiro Kondo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 663-667
Safety and Safety System | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22670
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Possibility of a real-time tritium monitoring in high-energy accelerator facilities is examined using a polyimide hollow-filament type membrane module. Enrichment characteristics of hydrogen isotopes in nitrogen and water in dry-air were measured extensively, and a computer simulation using the simplified model for the gas separation was also performed. The experimental results showed that the polyimide membrane module could enrich significantly hydrogen isotopes and water vapor from nitrogen and dry air. It is concluded from these experimental results that using the membrane module could be useful for the real-time tritium monitoring.