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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 6 | Number 3 | November 1984 | Pages 574-583
Technical Paper | Tritium System | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23139
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The simulation procedure used in the code, CRYDIS-2, is greatly improved. The previous procedure used the Newton-Raphson method choosing a set of temperatures and liquid flow rates for the independent variables. Considering the property that the convergence characteristics of the liquid flow rates are much less sensitive to the type of the iterative method than those of the temperatures, the iterative loop is divided into two loops — the inner loop of the quasi-Newton method for temperature corrections and the outer loop of the successive iteration for flow rate corrections. The corrections of the deviation coefficients are also made in the outer loop, together with the flow rate corrections, when the nonideality of the hydrogen isotope solution is incorporated in the model. Since the order of the Jacobian matrix is halved, and the numerical evaluation of the Jacobian matrix and its inversion are needed only once, both the computer storage requirements and computation time are remarkably reduced. Thus, a new computer code, CRYDIS-N, which uses an efficient simulation procedure, is developed. Also, a simple but powerful method for estimating the initial set of temperatures is proposed, and it assures rapid achievement of convergence. The simulation procedure is a verison particularly developed for simulating hydrogen isotope distillation columns.