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Can hydrogen be the transportation fuel in an otherwise nuclear economy?
Let’s face it: The global economy should be powered primarily by nuclear power. And it probably will by the end of this century, with a still-significant assist from renewables and hydro. Once nuclear systems are dominant, the costs come down to where gas is now; and when carbon emissions are reduced to a small portion of their present state, it will become obvious that most other sources are only good in niche settings. I mean, why use small modular reactors to load-follow when they can just produce that power instead of buffering it?
A. N. Perevezentsev, A. C. Bell
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 53 | Number 3 | April 2008 | Pages 816-829
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST08-A1737
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This paper presents results from the concept evaluation, experimental trials, and design of a water detritiation facility (WDF) for the JET fusion machine. The design is based on the combined electrolysis and catalytic exchange process and will allow construction of the plant and for its integration into the JET tritium plant in three stages.The first stage includes a liquid phase catalytic exchange column and electrolyzer to concentrate the water into a smaller amount of tritium-enriched water. There would then be three options for dealing with this water: processing off-site, conversion to solid intermediate-level waste for disposal, and further processing on-site for complete tritium recovery. The latter option will require the second stage of implementation to integrate the WDF with the isotope separation system of the tritium plant. The third stage might be desirable to reduce the amount of time that the existing isotope separation system would need to be involved in the recovery of tritium from the WDF.