ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Latest Magazine Issues
May 2026
Jan 2026
2026
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
June 2026
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
South Korea looks to Southern and NuScale
This week, the United States and South Korea have taken two steps toward deepening their nuclear partnership through two notable announcements. First, the majority-state owned Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Birmingham, Ala.–based Southern Nuclear.
Y. Matsuda, N. Yokogawa, H. Yoshida, S. Konishi, Y. Naruse, F. Sakai, M. Yorozu, T. Ide, J. Mitsui
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 585-589
Tritium Processing | 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-A25197
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
At the Tritium Process Laboratory (TPL) in the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, the Thermal Diffusion process is applied to enrich and recover tritium diluted by the operation and experiments of the other apparatus installed in the gloveboxes. The apparatus is required to process 200-liter of hydrogen isotope mixture containing up to lg tritium by batch operation and enrich tritium to 90%. Preliminary studies were performed numerically as well as experimentally, and good agreement was obtained. Based on the results, the apparatus was designed. Major components are four 2.5m-high diffusion columns, reservoirs, pumps, active metal beds and a mass spectrometer. Whole apparatus was installed in the glovebox in the TPL by the end of 1987. The function of the apparatus was tested with H-D mixtures.