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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.
Jèrèmy Mascarade, Karine Liger, Xavier Joulia, Michéle Troulay, Xuan-Mi Meyer, Christophe Perrais
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 2 | March 2015 | Pages 463-466
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T55
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This paper presents the results of a parametric study done on a single stage finger-type packed-bed membrane reactor (PBMR) used for heavy water vapor dedeuteration. Thanks to mass spectrometer analysis of streams leaving the PBMR, speciation of deuterated species was achieved. Measurement of the amounts of each molecular component allowed the calculation of reaction quotient at the packed-bed outlet (i.e. retentate). They highlighted that isotopic exchange reactions occurring on the catalyst particles surface are not thermodynamically equilibrated. Moreover, variation of the heavy water content in the feed exhibits competition between permeation and conversion kinetics.
