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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
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. C. Bowman, Jr.a, R. H. Steinmeyer, L. K. Matson, A. Attalla, B. D. Craft
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 1985 | Pages 2337-2343
Material Interaction | 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-A24628
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Some properties of the tritide phases formed by the intermetallic compounds Mg2Ni, ZrNi, and LaNi5 have been studied. Whereas ZrNiT3 will retain its stoichiometry indefinitely when sufficient gaseous tritium is available, the stoichiometrics of Mg2NiT4 and LaNi5T6.9 decrease with time. Although all three intermetallic tritides can retain large quantities of the helium-3 tritium decay daughter product in the solid phase, irreversible release of helium begins after several hundred days for ZrNiTx and Mg2NiTx. However, LaNi5Tx retains all of the helium generated in the solid for at least 2400 days. NMR measurements for ZrNiTx and Mg2NiTx imply that helium is retained in microscopic bubbles as previously observed in several binary metal tritides.
