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Energy company Ansaldo Energia recently hosted a ceremony at its headquarters in Genoa, Italy, marking the launch of the Master in Technologies for Nuclear Power Plants program, which it developed in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano. A call for graduates in engineering, physics, and chemistry issued in May attracted more than 300 applications, 26 of which were selected for the program.
Y. Belot1, H. Camus1, S. Raviart1, A.B. Antoniazzi2, W.T. Shmayda2
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 1138-1143
Tritium Properties and Interaction with Material | 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-A30560
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This presentation describes some experiments to investigate the reemission of tritium from stainless steel planchets that had been submitted to a reference cleaning procedure, exposed to elemental tritium under well defined conditions and stored under air in closed vessels for a long period of time (months). The nature of the evolved species was studied in short desorption experiments consisting of flowing an air stream at ambient temperature past one of the tritium-bearing planchets. It was shown that a substantial part of the reemitted activity was in the form of volatile tritiated organic acids. It seems that these products, accumulated on the planchet during the storage phase, are subsequently available for desorption and emission to the atmosphere when the planchet is swept by air. The possible origin of these tritiated organic acids is further discussed.