In-bed measurement of tritium loading in process metal hydride beds

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:7243802

Nobile, A

The Replacement Tritium Facility at Savannah River Plant will make extensive use of metal hydride technology for the storage, pumping, isotopic separation, and compression of hydrogen isotopes. Two options were considered for routine accountability of tritium stored in metal hydride beds. One option was to use standard P-V-T-mass spectrometry techniques after desorption of storage beds to tanks of known volume. The second option was to develop a technique for direct measurement of bed loading. It was thought that such a technique would be more rapid and would account for heel, although some accuracy would be lost.The static nitrogen and flowing nitrogen methods were considered for this option. The flowing nitrogen method was eventually selected because it was insensitive to bed physical properties and isotopic gas composition, as well as being more accurate and easier to automate.

• Research Organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001
• OSTI ID: 7243802
• Report Number(s): DPST-88-499; CONF-8804146-1; ON: DE88011667
• Resource Relation: Conference: Storage science meeting, Los Alamos, NM, USA, 4 Apr 1988; Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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