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From South Korea to Belgium: Testing a high-density research reactor fuel
The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has developed a high-density uranium silicide fuel designed to replace high-enriched uranium in research reactors. Recent irradiation tests appear to be successful, KAERI reports, which means the fuel could be commercialized to continue a key global nuclear nonproliferation effort—converting research reactors to run on low-enriched uranium fuel.
Takeshi Muranaka, Nagayoshi Shima, Hisayoshi Sato
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 48 | Number 1 | July-August 2005 | Pages 516-519
Technical Paper | Tritium Science and Technology - Containment, Safety, and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A979
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To measure low tritium concentrations in environmental water samples, it is necessary to enrich them by electrolysis. We attempted electrolytic enrichment under the following conditions: (1) A standard water cell and sample water cell are connected in series and enriched using solid polymer electrolytic film (SPE film). (2) The apparatus constant obtained from the standard cell was used to estimate the tritium concentration in the sample water. (3) SPE film was replaced and the electrolytic cell was dismantled, cleaned and set up for every run.We repeated electrolytic enrichments for three different water samples with four replicates per sample. Results confirmed that this method is valid for the estimation of tritium concentrations in environmental water samples.