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Ho Nieh, TVA board members, and nuclear fuel recycling bill head to Senate floor
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Ho Nieh, the Trump administration’s nominee to be a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and four new board members of the Tennessee Valley Authority were approved in a vote today by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and head to the Senate floor for a final vote.
The committee also voted to advance to the Senate floor the Nuclear REFUEL Act of 2025 (S. 2082), which would smooth the regulatory pathway for recycling used nuclear fuel.
President Donald nominated Nieh on July 30 to serve as NRC commissioner for the remainder of a term set to expire June 30, 2029, which was held by former NRC commissioner Chris Hanson, who Trump fired in June.
U. Shahid, B. W. N. Fitzpatrick, C. P. Chrobak, J. W. Davis, M. H. A. Piro
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 4 | May 2021 | Pages 279-288
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1883979
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The erosion and redeposition of first-wall armor materials is a problem in nuclear fusion devices with carbon walls, where deuterium, tritium, and (eroded) carbon present in the plasma are deposited on the walls of the device, trapping the expensive and radiologically hazardous tritium. Thermo-oxidation, in which vessel surfaces are heated and oxygen containing gas is injected, is a possible solution. It results in the production of carbon oxides and tritiated water vapor, which can be pumped out by the vacuum pumps and recycled in a tritium recycling facility. In the present study, thermogravimetric analysis was used to measure the mass loss (or gain) of codeposited specimens from the General Atomics DIII-D National Fusion Facility under thermo-oxidation, in addition to laser thermal desorption spectroscopy. X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy was also used in this work to examine the tile’s surface composition pre and post oxidation. Dust scraped from the specimen was also studied, as this is a surrogate for dust that naturally falls from the tile codeposits and builds up in the tile gaps. One key conclusion is that boron oxides form where boron is present in the codeposit as an impurity, and these oxides dominate the weight-change behavior of the codeposit specimens for long exposures.