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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 671-676
Tritium Properties and Interactions with Material | 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-A25211
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TITAN is a high-power-density reversed-field pinch reactor design. The TITAN-II concept is based on an aqueous lithium salt blanket immersed in a loop-in-pool design to provide a high level of passive safety. The blanket uses 50 Ci/kg water in the primary heat transport circuit, and 0.4 Ci/kg in the cold water pool. The main coolant stream is treated by a 5-stage Vapor Phase Catalytic Exchange process, followed by Cryogenic Distillation. Water Distillation is used to process the cold pool. The design uses proven technologies (although on a ten times larger scale), and takes advantage of features of light water tritium recovery. Tritium losses are controlled to 50 Ci/d by leak-tight design, tritium release trapping by the cold pool, lower pressure in the primary system relative to the steam system, and air driers.