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Nuclear News 40 Under 40: The wait is over
Following the enthusiastic response from the nuclear community in 2024 for the inaugural NN 40 Under 40, the Nuclear News team knew we had to take up the difficult task in 2025 of turning it into an annual event—though there was plenty of uncertainty as to how the community would receive a second iteration this year. That uncertainty was unfounded, clearly, as the tight-knit nuclear community embraced the chance to celebrate its up-and-coming generation of scientists, engineers, and policy makers who are working to grow the influence of this oft-misunderstood technology.
Satoshi Fukada, Masabumi Nishikawa, Akio Sagara, Takayuki Terai
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 1054-1058
Blanket Material and Process | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22745
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Rates of the recovery of tritium from a blanket of a fusion reactor with a 1 GWt power are estimated. The recovery methods are a permeation window, a Flibe-He counter-current-extraction tower and a rotational centrifugal flow system. There is high possibility in that the rate-determining step of the permeation window is tritium diffusion in Flibe. The tritium diffusion in liquid Flibe drops is also the dominant process in the counter-current-extraction tower. The determination of the tritium diffusion rate in purified or unpurified Flibe (or actual blanket environment) is a key to estimate the tritium recovery rate accurately.