Hitachi, Ltd.

Yoshihiro Ozawa

Tetsuo Fukasawa

Tadahiko Miyoshi

Tetsuo Nakazawa

Takehiko Kitamori

Hideo Yusa

Takashi Nishi

Shigeru Kikuchi

Naohito Uetake

Haruo Fujimori

Kazumichi Suzuki

Tetsuo Oyama

Akira Sasahira

Yoshitaka Gotoh

Shin-ichi Itoh

Masaharu Ohtsuka

A structure of a nuclear fusion reactor having a vacuum vessel in which hydrogen isotope plasma is enclosed and a confining magnetic field generating coil for confining said plasma at a predetermined position in said vacuum vessel. It comprises a low tritium-permeable layer having lower tritium-permeability than that of a cooling metal base for forming a refrigerant passage for cooling the vacuum vessel on at least the surface adjacent to said plasma enclosed and a heat resistant and insulating fire member of the level higher than that of said cooling metal base for thermally shielding said low tritium-permeable layer from said plasma or corpuscular rays is formed on the low tritium-permeable layer. The similar processings are applied to the cooling metal base for forming the refrigerant passage for cooling a divertor disposed in the vacuum vessel and for neutralizing ionized corpuscles so as to exhaust them.

Nuclear fusion reactor

A dissolved substance contained in a solution is oxidized or reduced by adding a particulate semiconductor photocatalyst and a water-soluble electron acceptor or donor for the particulate semiconductor photocatalyst to a solution containing a dissolved substance, and irradiating the particulate semiconductor photocatalyst in the solution with an electromagnetic wave having an energy high enough to excite the particulate semiconductor photocatalyst, or by adding a particulate semiconductor photocatalyst and a water-soluble electron acceptor or donor for the particulate semiconductor photocatalyst to a solution containing a dissolved substance and irradiating the particulate semiconductor photocatalyst in the solution with an electromagnetic wave having an energy high enough to excite the particulate semiconductor photocatalyst and having a wavelength outside the absorption wavelength region of a precursor substance capable of producing an oxidation or reduction reaction-inhibiting substance, whereby (1) ions or complexes are converted to simple substances or to ions or compounds with different valencies, and (2) simple substances, ions, complexes or other compounds are separated and recovered or removed by utilizing its actions and effects.

Process and apparatus for oxidizing or reducing dissolved substance

Method for solidifying radioactive waste

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Yoshihiro Ozawa