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Fusion energy: Progress, partnerships, and the path to deployment
Over the past decade, fusion energy has moved decisively from scientific aspiration toward a credible pathway to a new energy technology. Thanks to long-term federal support, we have significantly advanced our fundamental understanding of plasma physics—the behavior of the superheated gases at the heart of fusion devices. This knowledge will enable the creation and control of fusion fuel under conditions required for future power plants. Our progress is exemplified by breakthroughs at the National Ignition Facility and the Joint European Torus.
B. Hircq
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.