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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?
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.