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Task force charts growing interest in civilian maritime nuclear applications
Readers of Nuclear News will have heard of historical applications of civilian maritime nuclear power, like the merchant ship NS Savannah and the USS Sturgis floating power plant. With a few exceptions there has been little action in this area for over 50 years, and there are plenty of reasons and opinions as to why, but over the last few years the dramatic increase in interest from the maritime industry and its stakeholders has been undeniable.
R. T. Walters, P. Burket, J. H. Scogin IV
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 54 | Number 1 | July 2008 | Pages 95-98
Technical Paper | Storage | doi.org/10.13182/FST08-A1773
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A hybrid-heating microwave oven provides the energy to heat small 10-gram samples of spent metal tritide storage bed material to release tenaciously held decay product 3He. Complete mass balance procedures require direct measurement of added or produced gases on a tritide bed, and over 1100°C is necessary to release deep trapped 3He. The decomposition of non-radioactive CaCO3 and the quantitative measurement of CO2 within 3% of stoichiometry demonstrate the capabilities of the apparatus to capture generated (released) gases.
