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NRC wants input on Hermes 2 test reactor construction permit
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking input on its draft environmental assessment and draft finding of no significant impact for Kairos Power’s application to build the Hermes 2 test reactor facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
A.A. Yukhimchuk, S.K. Grishechkin, M.E. Notkin, R.K. Musyaev, B.S. Lebedev, A.O Busnyuk, Yu.I. Vinogradov, V.N. Alimov, A.I. Livshits
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 929-933
Material Interaction and Permeation | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22721
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The experimental setup is put in operation designed to study the phenomenon of the superpermeation of hydrogen isotopes, including tritium, through metals and to demonstrate the possibility of membrane pumping. The permeation of atomic hydrogen through the niobium membrane was shown to occur in the superpermeation regime. For the first time superpermeation of tritium through a metallic membrane was experimentally observed. The possibility of effective pumping, compression and recuperation of hydrogen isotopes by means of superpermeable membrane was demonstrated.