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Task force charts growing interest in civilian maritime nuclear applications
Readers of Nuclear News will have heard of historical applications of civilian maritime nuclear power, like the merchant ship NS Savannah and the USS Sturgis floating power plant. With a few exceptions there has been little action in this area for over 50 years, and there are plenty of reasons and opinions as to why, but over the last few years the dramatic increase in interest from the maritime industry and its stakeholders has been undeniable.
Fu Jun, Liao Zhe, Wang Lei, Li Shicheng, Song Jiangfeng, Luo Deli
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 2 | March 2015 | Pages 336-338
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T24
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According to the requirements of the tritium related systems of the TBM for monitoring the on-line tritium concentration, a wide-range tritium-concentration detector has been developed to measure the tritium concentration in the range of 104 Bq/ml &sim 5×108 Bq/ml. Correspondingly, the minimum weak current which the detector could be measured is 10−14 A. The performances of the background current and the current response linearity of the prototype have been tested.
