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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.
S. Naoe, Y. Torikai, R.-D. Penzhorn, K. Akaishi, K. Watanabe, M. Matsuyama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 54 | Number 2 | August 2008 | Pages 515-518
Technical Paper | Materials Interactions | doi.org/10.13182/FST08-1
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From tritium release experiments with stainless steel 316 carried out at several temperatures and tritium depth profiles of tritium-depleted specimen information on the transport of tritium by two diverse techniques was obtained. The results could be interpreted by a one dimensional diffusion model. The activation energy for the diffusion of tritium through stainless steel was found to be 61.3 kJ/mol.
