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2023 ANS Annual Meeting
June 11–14, 2023
Indianapolis, IN|Marriott Indianapolis Downtown
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Vogtle-3 achieves full power output
The Vogtle expansion project’s Unit 3 reactor has attained 100 percent energy output—the first time it has reached its maximum expected output of approximately 1,100 MWe, Georgia Power announced yesterday.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Huntington A
Session Chair:
Brenda Garcia-Diaz (Savannah River National Laboratory)
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey
Session Organizer:
Paul W. Humrickhouse (ORNL)
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Empirical Consideration of Tritium/Material Interactions on Fusion Plant Design
Dale Hitchcock (SRNL), Timothy Krentz (SRNL), Brenda Garcia-Diaz (SRNL), David W. Babineau (SRNL)
Summary
Overview of SPARC Tritium Handling and Emissions Management for DT Fusion
Heena K. Mutha (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
Density Functional Theory Study of Tritium Diffusion in Pd/V Vacuum Permeator
Wahyu Setyawan (PNNL), David J. Senor (PNNL)
Cryogenic Impurity Removal for Helium and Hydrogen Isotope Purification
Lucas Angelette (SRNL), Raymond G. Belliveau (SRNL), Benjamin Ruiz-Yi (SRNL)
Transient Predictive Modeling of the Tritium Extraction eXperiment with MELCOR-TMAP
Thomas Fuerst (INL), Matthew D. Eklund (INL), Adriaan A. Riet (INL), Chase N. Taylor (INL)
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