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NRC posts hearing request notice for Belews Creek ESP application
An opportunity to request an adjudicatory hearing for Duke Energy Carolinas’ early site permit (ESP) application for the Belews Creek site in Stokes County, N.C., has been announced by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The notice of the opportunity was published February 9 in the Federal Register. The deadline to file a request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene is April 10, 2026.
Simon Niemes, James Robert Braun
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 80 | Number 3 | April-May 2024 | Pages 558-562
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2209087
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Accurate gas samples containing tritiated molecules are essential for the development of tritium monitoring tools and to study tritium-induced reaction dynamics. We prepared gas samples that may contain any of the six hydrogen isotopologues by manometrically mixing high-purity homonuclear isotopologues and forming the remaining isotopologues by chemical equilibration. In order to independently verify the relative isotopologue concentrations to the manometrically derived composition and thus validate the accuracy of the produced gas samples, we measured the effective speed of sound (SoS) in the gas mixtures, which are highly sensitive to small deviations in the relative molar fractions due to the large difference in the individual SoSs. We found that deviations between the manometrically derived and measured SoSs are on a 0.1% level, demonstrating the accuracy of the sample production procedure and the suitability of SoS measurements for inline composition monitoring in tritium applications.