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Deep Fission to break ground this week
With about seven months left in the race to bring DOE-authorized test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, via the Reactor Pilot Program, Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on its associated project on December 9 in Parsons, Kansas. It’s one of many companies in the program that has made significant headway in recent months.
Hiroshi Maekawa, Fujio Maekawa, Yukio Oyama, Chikara Konno, Yujio Ikeda, Kouichi Tsuda, Seiya Yamaguchi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 1086-1091
Fusion Blanket, Shield, and Neutronic Technology | Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40298
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The tritium production-rate (TPR) is a very important neutronic parameter in the D-T fusion blanket research. The following five techniques for the measurement of TPR have been developed at FNS/JAERI: (1) Subtraction method using a pair of Li-glass scintillators, (2) Indirect method using a small sphere NE213 scintillator, (3) Liquid scintillation method with Li2O pellet, (4) Liquid scintillation method with Li2O plate/block (zonal method), and (5) LiF TLD self-irradiation method. This paper describes these methods, comparison of their features, and their typical results for the blanket benchmark experiments at FNS.
