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BREAKING NEWS: Trump issues executive orders to overhaul nuclear industry
The Trump administration issued four executive orders today aimed at boosting domestic nuclear deployment ahead of significant growth in projected energy demand in the coming decades.
During a live signing in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump called nuclear “a hot industry,” adding, “It’s a brilliant industry. [But] you’ve got to do it right. It’s become very safe and environmental.”
Y. Yamasaki, S. Fukada, K. Hiyane, K. Katayama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 71 | Number 4 | May 2017 | Pages 501-506
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1291028
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In order to make proof of the recovery of hydrogen isotopes from a liquid lithium (Li) blanket, we experimented the recovery of deuterium (D) dissolved in Li by means of yttrium (Y) metal at 300°C. In the experiment, 160 wppm D dissolved in Li was removed down to 1 wppm by means of the Y trap maintained at 300°C under fluidized Li conditions. The ratio of the final-state D concentration dissolved in Li to the initial one is defined as a removal efficiency, and the removal efficiency was found to be in proportion to the D concentration remained in Li. In addition, judging from its dependence on D concentration remained in Li, it was found that the removal efficiency is well consistent with the secondary-order reaction process and the removal efficiency was correlated to a function of contact time.
