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NextGen MURR to partner with Burns & McDonnell
The University of Missouri has entered a consulting agreement with construction firm Burns & McDonnell to develop NextGen MURR, a new 20-MW light water research reactor that will produce medical isotopes for cancer treatments and theranostics and will be used to conduct neutron science research.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 54 | Number 1 | July 2008 | Pages 315-318
Technical Paper | Environment and Safety | doi.org/10.13182/FST08-A1821
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The building and safety systems of the TPL (Tritium Process Laboratory) were constructed in 1984 and 1985. The safety systems in the TPL have operated with tritium since March 1988. The amount of tritium held in the TPL was 13 PBq in March 2007. The average tritium concentration in a stream from a stack of the TPL to the environment was 6.0 x 10-3 Bq/cm3 and is 1/100 smaller than that of the regulatory value for the concentration of HTO in the air in Japan. Safe operation with tritium has been demonstrated. A set of failure data for several main components of the TPL was also obtained as valuable data for a fusion tritium facility.
