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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
A. Matsumoto, T. Yamanishi, K. Okuno, Y. Naruse
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1959-1963
Material and Tritium | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30007
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Experimental study for separation of hydrogen isotopes has been performed by using a ‘cryogenic-wall’ thermal diffusion column. The separation experiments were carried out with H-D system under total reflux and continuous feed operation mode. The dependence of the separation factor on the column pressure were examined for both experiments. In the total reflux experiments, the maximum separation factor of the ‘cryogenic-wall’ column was about 12.4 times larger than for the ‘water cooled-wall’. The effect of the feed flow rate on the separation factor and on the optimum pressure was examined in the continuous feed experiments. As the feed flow rate increased, the separation factor decrease appreciably, and the optimum pressure shift progressively to higher region.