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3D Printing Possibilities: Additive Manufacturing Impact Limiters for Transportation Casks
With the significant advances in additive manufacturing (AM), otherwise known as 3D printing, Orano Federal Services and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte recently re-examined the capabilities to print impact limiters for transportation casks used to ship spent nuclear fuel. Impact limiters protect transportation casks (sometimes also referred to as transportation overpacks) and their contents during an accident. Impact limiter designs must withstand testing based on a certain significance level of hypothetical accidents, including drops, crushing, fires, and immersion in water.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 424-428
National Fusion Tritium Program | Proceedings of the Third Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1-6, 1988) | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25169
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Because of twenty five years of tritium experience in the Bruyères-le-Châtel Center (CEA-FRANCE), new activities could be recently undertaken inside the European Fusion Technology Program, especially, tritium studies within the frame work of the Next European Torus (NET). After indicating generalities about our tritium experience in various areas, these following studies are after examined: purification of deuterium-tritium mixtures (DT) by cryosorption on molecular sieves, purification of DT on uranium beds, storage of DT on Lanthanum-Nickel-Manganese, weldability of tritium-helium implanted materials and corrosion of materials by “tritiated waters” species.