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Chernobyl at 40 years: Looking back at Nuclear News
Sunday, April 26, at 1:23 a.m. local time will mark 40 years since the most severe nuclear accident in history: the meltdown of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
In the ensuing four decades, countless books, documentaries, articles, and conference sessions have examined Chernobyl’s history and impact from various angles. There is a similar abundance of outlooks in the archives of Nuclear News, where hundreds of scientists, advocates, critics, and politicians have shared their thoughts on Chernobyl over the years. Today, we will take a look at some highlights from the pages of NN to see how the story of Chernobyl evolved over the decades.
S. Tanzawa, S. Hiroki, T. Abe
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 1004-1008
Purification and Chemical Process | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22735
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Experiments on separation of the exhaust gas from fusion reactors by using a Continuous Circulation Chromatograph method ( C3 method ) have been performed for use in a fuel cycle of the fusion reactor. In these experiments, a molecular-sieve was selected for the adsorbent material. And, H2/He, D2/He mixed gases and Ar were used as the sample gases and the carrier gas, respectively. It was confirmed that the mixed gases with various composition ratios were continuously separated to each gas composition at a room temperature and below an atmospheric pressure, within a detectable limit of the quadrupole mass spectrometer we used. This separation method can be applied to the D2-T2/He mixed gas and simplify the fusion fuel cycle, where the He and other impurities are directly removed from the plasma exhaust gas within a vacuum pumping system.