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IAEA to help monitor plastic pollution in the Galapagos Islands
The International Atomic Energy Agency announced that its Nuclear Technology for Controlling Plastic Pollution (NUTEC Plastics) initiative has partnered with Ecuador’s Oceanographic Institute of the Navy (INOCAR) and Polytechnic School of the Coast (ESPOL) to build microplastic monitoring and analytical capacity to address the growing threat of marine microplastic pollution in the Galapagos Islands.
Stanislaw Szpak, Pamela A. Mosier-Boss
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 273-278
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A71
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Release paths for tritium produced during electrochemical compression of deuterium in a Pd lattice are examined. Arguments in support of the reversal of diffusion caused by gas evolution on the electrode surface are presented.
