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September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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As most attendees of this year’s ANS Annual Conference left breakfast in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Downtown Marriott to sit in on presentations covering everything from career pathways in fusion to recently digitized archival nuclear films, 40 of them made their way to the hotel’s fifth floor to take part in the second offering of Nuclear 101, a newly designed certification course that seeks to give professionals who are in or adjacent to the industry an in-depth understanding of the essentials of nuclear energy and engineering from some of the field’s leading experts.
R. V. Carlson, F. A. Damiano, K. E. Binning
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 1985 | Pages 2190-2195
Blanket and Process Engineering | Proceedings of the Second National Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Dayton, Ohio, April 30 to May 2, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24607
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Fusion reactor facilities will be required to minimize releases of hazardous materials to the environment during both normal operations and accident situations. The Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory has a tritium removal system, capable of processing room air to collect tritium accidentally released into the tritium handling areas of the facility. This system, the Emergency Tritium Cleanup (ETC) system, will both minimize accidental releases to the environment from TSTA and demonstrate the feasibility and operations of a large room air detritiation system. The system is also designed to study tritium releases under controlled conditions. Based on the initial nontritium tests described in this paper, we have determined that the ETC has a single-pass efficiency for tritium collection of greater than 99.9%.
