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This month’s issue of Nuclear News focuses on supply and demand. The “supply” part of the story highlights nuclear’s continued success in providing electricity to the grid more than 90 percent of the time, while the “demand” part explores the seemingly insatiable appetite of hyperscale data centers for steady, carbon-free energy.
Technically, we are in the second year of our AI epiphany, the collective realization that Big Tech’s energy demands are so large that they cannot be met without a historic build-out of new generation capacity. Yet the enormity of it all still seems hard to grasp.
or the better part of two decades, U.S. electricity demand has been flat. Sure, we’ve seen annual fluctuations that correlate with weather patterns and the overall domestic economic performance, but the gigawatt-hours of electricity America consumed in 2021 are almost identical to our 2007 numbers.
Satyabrata Mishra, Vishnu Anand P, Gnanasoundari J, Rajeev R, Desigan N, Venkatesan K A
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 6 | June 2025 | Pages 988-999
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2398358
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Tri-iso-amyl phosphate (TiAP) is being proposed as a suitable alternate to tri-butyl phosphate mainly for the reprocessing of high-Pu-content spent fuel from fast reactors. After its use in a few cycles, the solvent has to be categorized as organic waste, which needs further treatment and disposal. Toward this, systematic studies have been carried out on the alkaline hydrolysis of TiAP in n-dodecane (n-DD) using sodium hydroxide (NaOH). The experiments were carried out in a stainless steel autoclave with a reactor vessel having a 1 L processing capacity. The parameters, such as mixing intensity, temperature, aqueous-to-organic phase volume ratio, and initial NaOH concentration, that can affect the kinetics of the hydrolysis reaction were studied. During each experiment, the TiAP concentration in the organic phase decreased steadily with time followed by a sudden decrease, which could be due to the autocatalytic hydrolysis of TiAP. After the completion of the hydrolysis reaction, the organic phase was mainly n-DD with iso-amyl alcohol, suggesting complete hydrolysis of TiAP to its aqueous-soluble hydrolysis products. Based on the studies, it was observed that temperature and initial NaOH concentration, among other parameters, highly influence the rate of hydrolysis of TiAP.