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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
O. K. Tallent, J. C. Mailen, K. E. Dodson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 71 | Number 2 | November 1985 | Pages 417-425
Technical Paper | Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33694
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The chemical degradation of normal paraffin hydrocarbon (NPH) diluents both in the pure state and mixed with 30% tributyl phosphate (TBP) was investigated in a series of experiments. The results show that degradation of NPH in the TBP-NPH-HNO3 system is consistent with the active chemical agent being a radical-like nitrogen dioxide (NO2) molecule, not HNO3 as such. Spectrophotometric, gas chromatographic, mass spectrographic, and titrimet-ric methods were used to identify the degradation products, which included alkane nitro and nitrite compounds, alcohols, unsaturated alcohols, nitro alcohols, nitro alkenes, ketones, and carboxylic acids. The degradation rate was found to increase with increases in the HNO3 concentration and the temperature. The rate was decreased by argon sparging to remove NO2 and by the addition of butanol, which probably acts as a NO2 scavenger.
