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Inertia and LLNL accelerate fuel manufacturing
Inertia Enterprises and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a manufacturing process for the thin layer of cryogenically frozen deuterium-tritium (D-T) used in its target design, reducing production time from days to hours, according to the company.
The advance makes target fueling cheaper and reduces the amount of tritium that Inertia would need to hold at a pilot plant, which lowers material handling costs, regulatory burden, and dependence on scarce fuel inventories.
Junhyuk Jang, Minsoo Lee, Gha-Young Kim, Mihye Kong, Jin-Seop Kim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 11 | November 2023 | Pages 1785-1796
Regular Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2023.2213495
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Corrosion modules simulating the engineered barrier system were designed in this study for long-term-corrosion (LTC) testing of canister materials under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. The LTC module for aerobic conditions was designed as a bath-type container with flowing underground water extracted from the Korea Underground Research Tunnel. Five types of metallic disks, that is, rolled Cu, Type 304 stainless steel (SS), Titanium Grade 2 (Ti-G2), cast iron (CI), and Cu coating, were embedded into bentonite and maintained at different temperatures. After 3 years of testing under aerobic conditions, the corrosion rates of CI and Cu were estimated to be 1.9 μm/year and 550 nm/year, respectively. The SS and Ti-G2 exhibited a better corrosion rate of 6 nm/year. The LTC module for anaerobic conditions was developed in a vessel-type cylindrical container to allow it to settle in the boreholes. Four coin-shaped disks of each metal were embedded in bentonite, which was subsequently stacked in the cylindrical vessel. The vessels were placed in boreholes at a depth of 300 m. The Cu corrosion rate after 6 months of LTC testing under anaerobic conditions was 280 nm/year. Longer LTC tests will provide a more exact corrosion rate.