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Wyoming as a hub for new nuclear manufacturing and microreactor deployment?
A 60-year-old Wyoming industrial machinery company is partnering with nuclear innovator BWX Technologies to deploy 50-megawatt microreactors in America’s heartland over the coming years to provide carbon-free heat and power for industrial users.
Arthur Nobile, Jr.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 2 | September 1991 | Pages 186-199
Technical Paper | Tritium System | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29689
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Two processes that use metal hydrides for tritium handling have been installed in the Savannah River Site tritium facilities and have been used in routine tritium processing operations for nearly the past 3 years. These processes represent significant demonstrations of metal hydride technology for pumping, purification (inert gas separation), storage, and compression of tritium. Pumping and purification are demonstrated with a pump/purifier that uses palladium supported on kieselguhr as the hydrogen isotope-absorbing material. Storage and compression are demonstrated in a tritium loading facility that uses LaNi4.15Al0.85 beds for tritium storage, and LaNi4.7Al0.3 and Ca0.2Mm0.8Ni5(Mm-Mischmetal) beds for tritium compression. Operating data collected during routine operation of the pump/purifier and the loading facility are presented and discussed.
