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Japan gets new U for enrichment as global power and fuel plans grow
President Trump is in Japan today, with a visit with new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the agenda. Takaichi, who took office just last week as Japan’s first female prime minister, has already spoken in favor of nuclear energy and of accelerating the restart of Japan’s long-shuttered power reactors, as Reuters and others have reported. Much of the uranium to power those reactors will be enriched at Japan’s lone enrichment facility—part of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.’s Rokkasho fuel complex—which accepted its first delivery of fresh uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) in 11 years earlier this month.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 1457-1462
Tritium Waste Management and Discharge Control | 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-A30617
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The production of large volumes of low specific activity waste is a byproduct of working with tritium. Reliable, labour minimized techniques for assessing the tritium bound in the waste is essential for an effective waste management program. This work examines the use of tritium outgassing rates from waste as a means of determining the bound inventory. A simple and inexpensive technique has been developed which, when combined with a sampling methodology, leads to accurate measurements of tritium outgassing rates. These outgassing rates when used in conjuction with the appropriate database will yield the inventory bound in the waste. The results of this study support the viability of the proposed approach.
