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Commercial nuclear innovation "new space" age
In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
C. Muirhead, H. Li, K. Pilatzke, M. Byers, R. Carson, H. Boniface, S. Suppiah
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 71 | Number 3 | April 2017 | Pages 281-285
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1290974
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Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) is developing a Proton Exchange Membrane-based (PEM) electrolyser intended for tritium removal. Commercially available Nafion® N-1110 membranes have been exposed to tritiated water (with a β activity of about 37 GBq/mL) prepared in the Tritium Facility at CNL. Three equivalent batches of Nafion® N-1110 membranes (each with a dimension of 4 cm × 4 cm) were exposed to β-doses of 67 kGy, 155 kGy, and 255 kGy, respectively.
The exposed membranes required decontamination for characterization and testing. A few different decontamination methods have been experimentally studied. These methods can be categorized as water elution and chemical soaking. The measured tritium concentration in eluent decreased quickly in the first 30 days of water elution, followed by a slow decay afterwards until reaching a plateau after about 100 days. Chemical soaking proved to be more effective than the water elution method and high temperature facilitated the tritium release.