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Knoxville’s nuclear workshop opens with a full house and a long to-do list
The East Tennessee Economic Council’s Nuclear Opportunities Workshop opened yesterday morning at the Knoxville Convention Center, drawing registrants from around the country, and will close later today following a packed lineup of policy and industry leaders.
P.R. Ballantyne, A.C. Bell, J.L. Hemmerich
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 483-488
Safety; Measurement and Accountability; Operation and Maintenance; Application | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29793
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The Joint European Torus (JET) Active Gas Handling System (AGHS) will store and process the tritium required for the active phase operation of JET. Numerous types of secondary containments are used to house the process components necessary for this processing and storage. Secondary containments are a key safety feature of the plant's design and provide a defence-in-depth against the release of tritium. The secondary containment designs, features, operating conditions and integrity monitoring and the role that they play in mitigating releases from the AGHS are discussed.