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September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep geologic repository progress—2025 Update
Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair:
Joseph Petrella (PPPL)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
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3D transient CFD simulation of an in-vessel loss-of-coolant accident in the EU DEMO fusion reactor
Andrea Zappatore (Politecnico di Torino), Antonio Froio (Politecnico di Torino), Roberto Zanino, Gandolfo Alessandro Spagnuolo (PPPT Department, EUROfusion Consortium)
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Tritium trapping in soil immersed in tritiated water
Kazunari Katayama (Kyushu University), Daiki Ishii, Yuji Hatano, Akira Taguchi
Impact of off-site tritium hazard evaluations on the design and regulation of commercial tokamak DT fusion devices
Robert Patrick White (MIT)
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