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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.
Nobuyuki M. Masaki, Takakuni Hirabayashi, Masakatsu Saeki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 1337-1342
Tritium Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39874
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Behavior of sorption of tritium on surfaces of stainless steel, aluminum and borosilicate glass has been studied using gaseous tritium with high specific activity and the newly obtained knowledge has been applied to chemical and thermal decontamination of tritium-sorbing materials. The behavior depends on a character of surface of each material. The total amount of sorbed-tritium is evaluated as a function of time of exposure to gaseous tritium. The depth-profile of sorbed-tritium is obtained by chemical etching method. From these results, practical samples of stainless steel were decontaminated. The vacuum-bakeout for 21, hours at 773 K and dissolution by dilute (5%) HCl for 2 hours enable us to obtain the decontamination factor of 200.
