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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.
Anisia Bornea, Catalin Petrutiu, Marius Zamfirache
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 2 | March 2015 | Pages 270-273
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T8
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The main purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive software, SICA, designed to be used in water-hydrogen liquid phase catalytic exchange process (LPCE). The software calculates the water-gas catalytic isotopic exchange process, following the transfer of any H, D or T isotope from water to gas and vice versa. This software is useful both for design and laboratory-based research; the type of the catalytic filling (ordered or random) can be defined for any of these two cases, the isotopic calculation being specific to the package type. For the laboratory-based research, the performance of a catalytic packing can be determined defining the type and using the experimental results. Performance of the mixed catalytic packing is defined by mass transfer constants for each catalytic and hydrophilic package in that specific arrangement, and also for the isotope whose transfer is studied from one phase to another. Also, it has been established a link between these constants and commonly used parameters for the fillings performance defined by HETP (height equivalent of Theoretical Plate). To demonstrate the availability of the software, we presented a comparative analysis of water-gas catalytic isotopic exchange on a column equipped with three types of filling: successive layers, random or structured (ordered package filled with catalyst). The program can be used for the LPCE process calculation, process used at detritiation facilities for CANDU reactors or fusion reactors.