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G7 pledges support for nuclear at Italy meeting
The Group of Seven (G7) recommitted its support for nuclear energy in the countries that opt to use it at a Ministerial Meeting on Climate in Italy last month.
In a statement following the April meeting, the group committed to support multilateral efforts to strengthen the resilience of nuclear supply chains, referencing the goal set by 25 countries during last year’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai to triple global nuclear generating capacity by 2050.
C. H. Skinner, C. A. Gentile, L. Ciebiera, S. Langish
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 45 | Number 1 | January 2004 | Pages 11-14
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST04-A420
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Tritiated particles have been observed to spontaneously levitate under the influence of a static electric field. Tritium-containing codeposits were mechanically scraped from tiles that had been used in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) inner limiter during the deuterium-tritium campaign and were placed in a glass vial. On rubbing the plastic cap of the vial, a remarkable "fountain" of particles was seen inside the vial. Particles from an unused tile or from a TFTR codeposit that formed during deuterium discharges did not exhibit this phenomenon. It appears that tritiated particles are more mobile than other particles, and this should be considered in assessing tokamak accident scenarios and in occupational safety.