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Deep Space: The new frontier of radiation controls
In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
Saerom Kwon, Satoshi Sato, Ryuta Kasada, Satoshi Konishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 64 | Number 3 | September 2013 | Pages 599-603
Nuclear Systems: Analysis and Experiments | Proceedings of the Twentieth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE-2012) (Part 2) Nashville, Tennessee, August 27-31, 2012 | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-581
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This study evaluates tritium production and breeding behavior in a LiPb blanket module with the neutron transport code MCNP using nuclear cross-section data from FENDL-2.1 libraries. The calculation results suggest that a sufficient tritium breeding ratio (TBR) can be obtained in the SiC-LiPb blanket concept and therefore a proper integral experiment on LiPb with DT neutrons can be planned for a small test module. Also, TBR, neutron shielding and nuclear heating in the module were evaluated. With the results of TBR and results from actual neutron generation devices, we have proposed a plan for an integral experiment with a measurable tritium amount.
