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On January 5, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), the not-for-profit organization responsible for managing Canada’s nuclear waste, announced that it has submitted to the Canadian government an initial project description for its proposed deep geologic repository to hold Canada’s spent nuclear fuel.
J. Jung, M. Abdou
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 361-366
Neutronics and Shielding | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22891
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This paper presents assessments of tritium breeding requirements and breeding potential for the STARFIRE/DEMO design. The assessment of breeding requirement is described based on two design considerations; i.e., (1) tritium inventory and doubling requirement; and (2) computational uncertainties associated with the breeding calculation. The lithium-containing materials considered include: solid Li2O and LiAlO2 and liquid lithium and 17Li-83Pb.