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Controlling Cesium in the Coolant of the Experimental Breeder Reactor II
Nuclear Technology / Volume 46 / Number 2 / December 1979 / Pages 318-322
Technical Paper / Nuclear Power Reactor Safety (Presented at the ENS/ANS International Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, October 16–19, 1978) / Reactor / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32333
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Carbon has been shown to be an effective getter for cesium in liquid sodium. A cesium trap containing reticulated vitreous carbon and operating at 190°C has been used at the Experimental Breeder Reactor II to reduce fission product cesium activity in the primary sodium coolant from a maximum of 15 kBq/g to ∼870 Bq/g.
