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Industry Update—June 2025
Here is a recap of industry happenings from the recent past:
DOD selects companies for its installations microreactor program
The Department of Defense has selected eight technology companies as being eligible to seek funding for developing microreactor technologies as part of the DOD’s Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations program. That program seeks to “design, license, build, and operate one or more microreactor nuclear power plants on military installations . . . to support global operations across land, air, sea, space, and cyberspace.” The selected companies are Antares Nuclear, BWXT Advanced Technologies, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, Kairos Power, Oklo, Radiant Industries, Westinghouse Government Services, and X-energy. Specific objectives of the DOD program are to “field a decentralized scalable microreactor system capable of producing enough electrical power to meet 100 percent of all critical loads” and to “utilize the civil regulatory pathways of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to stimulate commercial nuclear microreactor technology development and the associated supply chains in the U.S.”
C. Boffito, A. Conte, G. Gasparini
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 2 | March 1995 | Pages 69-74
doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11963807
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The dissociation of tritiated water and the recovery of tritium is an important issue for the future thermonuclear fusion device.
Various solutions have been prospected including chemical dissociation on active beds.
The results of H2O sorption tests performed on different possible candidate alloys, by means of vacuum microbalance tecnique at a pressure of some hundreds Pa and at temperatures ranging from 300 to 400°C, are presented. From these tests a ternary Zr-Mn-Fe alloy appears to have promising features, combining good dissociation characteristics for H2O with low hydrogen pick-up.
The basic properties of this material are discussed, including structural aspects and sorption characteristics vs. other gases.
