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Deep Fission raises $30M in financing
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.
C.J.Caldwell-Nichols, M. Glugla, S. Gross, R. Lässer, T.L. Le, R.-D. Penzhorn, K.H. Simon
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 617-620
Device, Facility, and Operation | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22662
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The Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe (TLK) is developing processes, devices and measurement techniques for the fuel cycle of fusion reactors. Several tritium processing components from tritium operations of experimental and infrastructure facilities of TLK have reached the end of their useful lives, are no longer useable or are to be reconditioned for future use. These components are in the process of post-service examination to determine the condition of the working materials inside these components and the changes that have resulted from operation with hydrogen isotopes, predominantly tritium. Another important aspect is the preparation of some of these components, particularly metal hydride storage beds, for safe disposal. The results are of importance for the design, operation and particularly decommissioning of components of present and future tritium facilities and processing plants, such as JET and ITER. The activities are ongoing and the results to date are presented together with plans for future work.