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The legacy of Windscale Pile No. 1
The core of Pile No. 1 at Windscale caught fire in the fall of 1957. The incident, rated a level 5, “Accident with Wider Consequences,” by the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), has since inspired nuclear safety culture, risk assessment, accident modeling, and emergency preparedness. Windscale also helped show how important communication and transparency are to gaining trust and public support.
J. M. Mintz, T. S. Elleman, K. Verghese
Nuclear Technology | Volume 31 | Number 2 | November 1976 | Pages 172-182
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A31680
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The steady-state diffusion of tritium in a fusion reactor blanket has been evaluated using the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Theta-Pinch reactor as a reference system. The purpose was to calculate the equilibrium tritium transport rate, approximate time to reach equilibrium, and tritium inventory in various regions of the reactor blanket as a function of selected blanket parameters. Values for these quantities have been tabulated for blanket conditions that appear reasonable for the reference system.