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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2023)
February 6–9, 2023
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Fusion energy radwaste management considerations
The question of what to do with the radioactive waste has been raised frequently for both fission and fusion. In the 1970s, fusion adopted the land-based disposal option, primarily based on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s decision to regulate all radioactive wastes as only a disposal issue, following the fission guidelines. In the early 2000s, members of the Advanced Research Innovation and Evaluation Study (ARIES) national team became increasingly aware of the high amount of mildly radioactive materials that 1-GWe fusion power plants will generate, compared with the current line of fission reactors. The main concern is that such a sizable inventory of mostly tritiated radioactive materials would tend to rapidly fill U.S. repositories—a serious issue that was overlooked in early fusion studies1 that could influence the public acceptability of fusion energy and will certainly become more significant in the immediate future if left unaddressed, as fusion moves toward commercialization.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Huntington B/C
Session Chair:
Tim D. Bohm (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Alternate Chair:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
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Status of Design Activities of the DEMO Helium Cooled Pebble Bed Breeding Blanket in Europe
Guangming Zhou (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Francisco A. Hernandez (EUROfusion Programme Management Unit & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)), Jarir Aktaa (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), David Alonso (ESTEYCO), Frederik Arbeiter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Lorenzo V. Boccaccini (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Ion Cristescu (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Antonio Froio (Politecnico di Torino), Christophe Garnier (CEA), Mathias Jetter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Xue Z. Jin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Marc Kamlah (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Béla Kiss (Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)), Christina Koehly (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Christine Klein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Ivan A. Maione (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Luis Maqueda (ESTEYCO), Carlos Moreno (CIEMAT), Ivo Moscato (University of Palermo & EUROfusion Programme Management Unit), Iole Palermo (CIEMAT), Jin H. Park (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Volker Pasler (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Dario Passafiume (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Pavel Pereslavtsev (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Anoop Retheesh (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Álvaro Yáñez (ESTEYCO)
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Tritium Breeding and Nuclear Heating Evaluation of Solid Breeder Concepts
Felipe S. Novais (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Calibration of a Mesoscale Tritium Transport Model for Ceramic Breeder Materials in TMAP8 Using Experimental Data
Pierre-Clement A. Simon (INL), Paul W. Humrickhouse (ORNL), Alexander D. Lindsay (INL), Masashi Shimada (INL)
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