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U.K. consents to Hinkley Point B decommissioning
The U.K. government’s Office for Nuclear Regulation has granted EDF Energy formal consent to decommission the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset, England. The two-unit advanced gas-cooled reactor was permanently shut down in August 2022, and site owner EDF applied to ONR for decommissioning consent in August 2024.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 822-827
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-A25236
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The Next European Torus (NET), will require a supply of tritium fuel that may not be entirely available from external sources. One option for breeding tritium within the machine itself is the Aqueous Lithium Salt Blanket (ALSB). In this paper, processes for recovering tritium from the blanket water are compared. These processes provide 90% detritiation of 500 kg/h of light water feed at an average concentration of 10 Ci/kg, yielding 0.5 g T/h. The recommended system uses a combination of water distillation (DW), vapor phase catalytic exchange (VPCE) and cryogenic distillation (CD). The DW unit is comparable in size to the D2O upgrader at the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station and the CD unit is similar to that provided for the Chalk River Tritium Extraction Plant.