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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.
C. E. Johnson, A. K. Fischer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 985-989
Fusion Materials—Properties and Behavior | Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24862
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Thermodynamic calculations have been made to compare the thermochemical performance of three candidate breeder blanket materials, Li2O, LiAlO2, and Li4SiO4. These calculations were done for the temperature range of 900–1300 K and the oxygen activity range of 10−25 to 10−5. Oxygen activity is an influential variable for these materials and must be considered in the diffusion of tritiated species, determining the chemical form of the released tritium, and retention of tritium in the condensed phase. Surface adsorption may also act as a strong contributor to tritium inventory. In general, LiAlO2 appears better than Li2O and Li2O, in turn, appears better than Li4SiO4.
