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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
S. Konishi, T. Hayashi, M. Inoue, K. Okuno, Y. Naruse, H. Sato, H. Fukui, K. Nemoto, M. Kurokawa, J.W. Barnes, J.L. Anderson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 999-1004
Material; Storage and Processing | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29882
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The Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) has developed a full scale Fuel Cleanup System (JFCU) that processes a simulated plasma exhaust at the Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA) in the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The JFCU was designed by the Tritium Process Laboratory (TPL) of the JAERI based on the component studies performed under previous TSTA-TPL collaboration and the pilot scale experiment using grams of tritium at the TPL. The JFCU accepts a simulated fusion reactor exhaust, a mixture of hydrogen isotopes with an impurity level of up to 15% at a throughput of 4.2x10−3 mol/s continuously and produces pure hydrogen isotopes while exhausting tritium-free waste gas. Some newly developed components, such as the Ceramic Electrolysis Cell and the large Zirconium-Cobalt bed, required special attention during fabrication and assembly. The apparatus was fabricated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and installed at the TSTA in early 1990. Interfacing with the existing TSTA facility also required careful interaction between TSTA and JAERI.