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Supply chain contract signed for Aurora
Oklo, the California-based developer of the Aurora Powerhouse sodium-cooled fast-neutron reactor, has signed a contract with Siemens Energy that is meant to de-risk supply chain and production timeline challenges for Oklo. Under the terms, Siemens will design and deliver the power conversion system for the Powerhouse, which is to be deployed at Idaho National Laboratory.
Jacob Bigeleisen, Willis B. Hammond, Sam Tuccio
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 83 | Number 4 | April 1983 | Pages 473-481
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A18650
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It is shown experimentally that fluoroform undergoes rapid protium-deuterium exchange with ammonia, methylamine, and cyclohexylamine in the presence of the respective conjugate bases of these protolytic solvents. Equilibrium protium-deuterium separation factors between fluoroform and water, ammonia, methane, ethane, and hydrogen at 25°C are calculated from molecular data. Schematic feed cycles are developed from these data to provide the feed for a commercial deuterium laser isotope separation plant using fluoroform under recycle as the working medium. Feed cycles considered are based on hydrogen, ammonia, or water as feedstocks. It is shown, from simple qualitative considerations, that hydrogen gas presents many advantages over the use of ammonia or water as feedstock material. Its only disadvantage is the limited production of D2O that can be realized in a plant operating on satellite hydrogen.