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OECD NEA meeting focuses on irradiation experiments
Members of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) joint undertaking gathered from September 29 to October 3 in Ketchum, Idaho, for the technical advisory group and governing board meetings hosted by Idaho National Laboratory. The FIDES-II Framework aims to ensure and foster competences in experimental nuclear fuel and structural materials in-reactor experiments through a diverse set of Joint Experimental Programs (JEEPs).
Layton J. Wittenberg
Nuclear Technology | Volume 38 | Number 3 | May 1978 | Pages 434-440
Technical Paper | Hot Laboratory | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A32041
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Concepts being developed for tritium containment at proposed fusion power plants will rely on existing laboratory experiences. The successful operation of a glove-box containment system was demonstrated by the control of an accidental release of 0.65 PBq (1.75 × 104 Ci) of tritium to the glove-box atmosphere. The total gaseous release to the environment was 79 ± 10 GBq (2.2 Ci). In addition, the tritium concentration in the body fluids of the sole worker in the laboratory increased by only 74 kBq/ℓ (2 µCi/ℓ). The appearance rate of tritium in the room and the absorption of tritium by the worker were adequately described by permeation of the molecular species of T2 and HTO through the gloves.