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Science 5 January 1968:
Vol. 159. no. 3810, pp. 83 - 84
DOI: 10.1126/science.159.3810.83-a
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Radioactive Wastes from Fusion Reactors

Frank L. Parkfr 1

1 Health Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37203

Calculation of the amount of tritium released from a hypothetical fusion reactor shows that it is 2 x 105 the amount released by generation of an equivalent amount of electricity by a fission reactor. Release of the tritium generated by a power economy, if the nuclear power were all fusion, would result in unacceptable worldwide dosages by the year 2000.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Wastes from Fusion Reactors.
F. L. Parker and D. J. Rose (1968)
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