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Deep Fission to break ground this week
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.
R. Scott Willms, Robert H. Sherman, Steven P. Cole, James B. Riggs, Kenji Okuno
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 778-784
Tritium Processing | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30499
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Fusion fuel processing systems are expected to rely on multi-column, cryogenic distillation systems for separating hydrogen isotopes. These systems will run continuously and need to respond to feeds varying considerably in both composition and flowrate. These systems will also need to operate with minimal inventories due to the value and safety concerns associated with tritium. These factors result in a clear need for a system of automatic control to maintain the isotope separation system operating properly. Such a system of regulatory (or material balance) controls have been added to the four-column ISS at the Tritium Systems Test Assembly. These controls have been tuned and tested individually. Then the overall system was demonstrated to work successfully. The results of this work is reported in this paper.