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Nicholas Tsoulfanidis—ANS member since 1969
We welcome ANS members who have careered in the community to submit their own Nuclear Legacy stories, so that the personal history of nuclear power can be captured. For information on submitting your stories, contact nucnews@ans.org.
As an undergraduate I studied physics at the University of Athens. I entered the university in 1955 after successfully passing a national exam (came up fourth in a field of about 700 candidates). Upon graduation and finishing my mandatory two-year military service, the plan was to teach physics either in a public high school or as a tutor for a private for-profit institution, preparing high school students for the national exam.
T. Yoshida, N. Ezumi, K. Sawada, Y. Tanaka, M. Tanaka, K. Nishimura
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 3 | April 2015 | Pages 650-653
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T102
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Recovery of tritium in nuclear fusion plants is a key issue for safety. So far, the oxidation procedure using atmospheric pressure plasma is expected to the recovery method. In this study, to clarify the mechanism of hydrogen oxidation by plasma chemistry, we investigated the dependence of hydrogen combustion efficiency on gas flow rate and input power in the atmospheric pressure microwave plasma. It is found that the combustion efficiency depended on energy density of absorbed microwave power. Hence, the energy density is considered as a key parameter for combustion processes.
Also neutral gas temperatures in and outside of the plasma were measured by an optical emission spectroscopy method and thermocouple. The result shows that the neutral gas temperature in the plasma is much higher than the outside temperature of plasma. The high neutral gas temperature would affect to the combustion reaction.