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DOE opens pilot program to authorize test reactors outside national labs
Details of the plan to test new reactor concepts under the Department of Energy’s authority but outside national laboratory boundaries—first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released on May 23—were just released in a request for applications issued by the DOE.
S. Konishi, T. Shibata, K. Noborio, Y. Yamamoto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 4 | November 2011 | Pages 1211-1214
Environmental and Organically Bound Tritium | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12648
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Some strategic considerations for fusion energy to be deployed in the future as environmentally and socially attractive option are presented from safety and resource aspects. With the environmental and biological behavior of tritium being understood, not only emission control by technological approach, controlling impacts on public health and social acceptability also became more important. Safety feature of the fusion plant that exhausts small amount of tritium in normal operation based on active control of emission leads to possible better scenario for reduced impacts. Selection of the coolant and possible emergency procedure will have impact on accidental scenario. Fuel resource issue is another major feature that affects attractiveness. Self sufficiency of tritium and deuterium in the total plant system was considered in relation with the operation scenario and development strategy.
