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Since the Department of Energy kicked off a 10-company race with its Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program to bring test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, the industry has been waiting for new headlines proclaiming progress. Aalo Atomics broke ahead of the pack first by announcing last week that it had broken ground on its 50-MWe Aalo-X at Idaho National Laboratory.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 488-492
Environment | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22637
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Field studies were undertaken on both a wetland, which is downgrabient from a radioactive waste storage area at Chalk River Laboratory, and a grassland near Pickering nuclear power station. The purpose for this study was to quantify HTO (tritiated water/vapor) transfer in the land surface environment. The amounts of evaporation and transpiration were separately estimated, because the specific activity of tritium (HTO) is commonly different between surface and subsurface soil. Most of the water and tritium fluxes are attributed to transpiration in the season examined. Measured tritium concentrations in leaves at daytime agreed with predicted values, which are based on a simple equation. The ratios of organically bound tritium (OBT) to free water tritium ranged from 0.2 to 0.8 in this study.