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How to talk about nuclear
In your career as a professional in the nuclear community, chances are you will, at some point, be asked (or volunteer) to talk to at least one layperson about the technology you know and love. You might even be asked to present to a whole group of nonnuclear folks, perhaps as a pitch to some company tangential to your company’s business. So, without further ado, let me give you some pointers on the best way to approach this important and surprisingly complicated task.
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.
