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South Korea looks to Southern and NuScale
This week, the United States and South Korea have taken two steps toward deepening their nuclear partnership through two notable announcements. First, the majority-state owned Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Birmingham, Ala.–based Southern Nuclear.
Carmen Varlam, Ioan Stefanescu, Ionut Faurescu, Nicolae Bidica, Irina Vagner, Denisa Faurescu, Diana Bogdan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 71 | Number 3 | April 2017 | Pages 339-343
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1289451
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The paper presents the variation of tritium activity concentration in the environment of Experimental Pilot Plant for Tritium and Deuterium Separation (PESTD) over 6 years of observations. The tritium level was established in surface water, air, precipitation, home-grown vegetable, meat and milk. The yearly average tritium concentrations in air were slightly higher than values for the preoperational monitoring program. The values of tritium concentration in surface water and fresh products used for human consumption did not exceed 3 Bq/kg fresh weight. Nuclear activity of PESTD did not have any impact on the environment so far.