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DOE fast tracks test reactor projects: What to know
The Department of Energy today unveiled 10 companies racing to bring test reactors online by next year to meet Trump's deadline of next Independance Day, leveraging a new DOE pathway that allows reactor authorization outside national labs. As first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released by President Trump on May 23 and in the request for applications for the Reactor Pilot Program released June 18, the companies must use their own money and sites—and DOE authorization—to get reactors operating. What they won’t need is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.
Terrence A. Renner, Donald J. Raue
Nuclear Technology | Volume 42 | Number 3 | March 1979 | Pages 312-319
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32185
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The permeability of tritium through Fe-2¼Cr-1 Mo steel (Croloy) steam generator material has been measured for the surface-clean metal and for the metal oxidized in steam at 755 K (482°C). The temperature dependence of tritium permeability has been measured for the unoxidized metal between 673 and 773 K; the apparent activation energy for permeation in this temperature range was found to be 39.14 ± 0.32 kJ/mol (9350 ± 80 cal/mol). After steam oxidation at 755 K and 0.2 MPa (2 atm) for about one month, the tritium permeation rate decreased by a factor of ≈150 relative to the clean metal. This reduction factor agrees very well with that measured for a sample of tubing used in Atomics International’s Modular Steam Generator experiments under typical liquid-metal fast breeder reactor steam generator conditions. These results may be used to calculate rates of tritium transport from the intermediate heat transport system sodium through the steam generator tubes and into the steam/water system. From this information, eventual release rates to the environment can be determined.