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U.K.’s NWS gets input from young people on geological disposal
Nuclear Waste Services, the radioactive waste management subsidiary of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has reported on its inaugural year of the National Youth Forum on Geological Disposal forum. NWS set up the initiative, in partnership with the environmental consultancy firm ARUP and the not-for-profit organization The Young Foundation, to give young people the chance to share their views on the government’s plans to develop a geological disposal facility (GDF) for the safe, secure, and long-term disposal of radioactive waste.
O. Borisevich, D.Demange, M. Kind, X. Lefebvre
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 2 | March 2015 | Pages 262-265
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T6
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Membrane separation by zeolite membranes has been proposed as a pre-concentration stage for the tritium extraction from the purge helium of the breeding blanket combined with a final recovery by the catalytic membrane reactor PERMCAT. This fully continuous operation improves the tritium management in fusion machines, minimizing the tritium inventory. In this work permeation measurements for mixtures of hydrogen, helium and water vapor at different compositions are presented. In parallel the first results of a simulation work comprising a model for multistage separation, allowing scaling up towards DEMO application, are discussed.