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Securing the advanced reactor fleet
Physical protection accounts for a significant portion of a nuclear power plant’s operational costs. As the U.S. moves toward smaller and safer advanced reactors, similar protection strategies could prove cost prohibitive. For tomorrow’s small modular reactors and microreactors, security costs must remain appropriate to the size of the reactor for economical operation.
Otto J. A. Reifenschweiler
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 31 | Number 3 | May 1997 | Pages 291-299
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reaction in Solid | doi.org/10.13182/FST97-A30832
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Recently a sharp decrease in the radioactivity of tritium was reported, and a preliminary explanation of this effect was formulated in terms of a nuclear-pair hypothesis. Through the evaluation of several gas-solid exchange and diffusion experiments of others, where heavy radionuclides (65Zn, 63Ni, 85Sr) are used as tracers, it can be shown that such an effect may also exist for these nuclei. In all these experiments the second law of thermodynamics seems to be grossly violated. By pure formal application of the nuclear-pair hypothesis, all such deviations from normal behavior can be explained. Several straightforward experiments are proposed to prove the decrease in radioactivity of heavy nuclei.