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X-energy receives federal tax credit for TRISO fuel facility
Advanced reactor company X-energy has been awarded $148.5 million in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for construction of its TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Ph. Cetier, J. Charuau, Y. Belot, S. Fauvel, C.H. Wu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 1148-1152
Tritium Properties and Interaction with Material | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology In Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30562
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This presentation describes experiments to investigate the sorption of tritium on carbon dust of different particle sizes and specific surface areas. The conditions of exposure were determined at the first wall of the tokamak. These conditions include low tritium pressures and depending on the operation phase, temperatures varying between 25°C and 1000°C. The simulation of these conditions inside an exposure chamber were necessary in order to design and construct a specific exposure device that could be adapted to these unusual conditions. Initial sorption data were obtained for carbon dust derived from a JET first-wall tile. The amount of tritium sorbed into or onto the carbon dust is between 0.1 and 10 mg T per kg C for a 24 hour-exposure duration. It increases with dust temperature. Other determinations, dealing particularly on the influence of exposure duration, are required to interpret this initial data.