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With about seven months left in the race to bring DOE-authorized test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, via the Reactor Pilot Program, Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on its associated project on December 9 in Parsons, Kansas. It’s one of many companies in the program that has made significant headway in recent months.
G. T. McConville, David A. Menke
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 23 | Number 3 | May 1993 | Pages 316-320
Technical Paper | Tritium System | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30159
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The exchange of CH4 in tritium has been measured at concentrations of 1.45 and3.00 mol% to display the time evolution of CT4. It is observed that the total methane concentration decreases with time, and no masses >24 amu are observed using mass spectroscopy. After 18 months, only 0.2% CT4 gas remained in the 3.00% CH4 experiment. These observations indicate that carbon is being removed from the gas phase. A model based on ion/molecule interactions is presented to explain the formation of CT4 and free carbon.
