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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?
Laurence Boisset, Christian Latgé, Luc Pibouleau, Phillippe Guittard, Serge Domenech
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 337-348
Technical Paper | Tritium System | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A30736
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Cryogenic distillation cascades are proposed to be used today to separate hydrogen isotopes in the fuel cycle of a fusion reactor. It is necessary to design these cascades so that their tritium inventory is minimal. We have thus developed optimization tools in order to simultaneously optimize the structure and the operating parameters of these distillation sequences. This leads to the implementation of a mixed-integer nonlinear programming procedure in a process simulator. The application concerns the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) isotope separation system. Successive simulation and optimization studies have been carried out which show the accuracy of the simulation and lead to the suggestion of a new arrangement of units for the cascade, with a higher number of columns.