Titanium for long-term tritium storage
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Abstract
Due to the reduction of nuclear weapon stockpile, there will be an excess of tritium returned from the field. The excess tritium needs to be stored for future use, which might be several years away. A safe and cost effective means for long term storage of tritium is needed. Storing tritium in a solid metal tritide is preferred to storing tritium as a gas, because a metal tritide can store tritium in a compact form and the stored tritium will not be released until heat is applied to increase its temperature to several hundred degrees centigrade. Storing tritium as a tritide is safer and more cost effective than as a gas. Several candidate metal hydride materials have been evaluated for long term tritium storage. They include uranium, La-Ni-Al alloys, zirconium and titanium. The criteria used include material cost, radioactivity, stability to air, storage capacity, storage pressure, loading and unloading conditions, and helium retention. Titanium has the best combination of properties and is recommended for long term tritium storage.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 10117162
- Report Number(s):
- WSRC-TR-94-0596
ON: DE95006465; TRN: 95:001765
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC09-89SR18035
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Dec 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; TRITIUM; STORAGE; CONTAINERS; DESIGN; PROCESSING; TRITIDES; ZIRCONIUM; URANIUM; TITANIUM HYDRIDES; HELIUM; 052001; 052002; WASTE PROCESSING; WASTE DISPOSAL AND STORAGE
Citation Formats
Heung, L.K.. Titanium for long-term tritium storage. United States: N. p., 1994.
Web. doi:10.2172/10117162.
Heung, L.K.. Titanium for long-term tritium storage. United States. doi:10.2172/10117162.
Heung, L.K.. Thu .
"Titanium for long-term tritium storage". United States.
doi:10.2172/10117162. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10117162.
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title = {Titanium for long-term tritium storage},
author = {Heung, L.K.},
abstractNote = {Due to the reduction of nuclear weapon stockpile, there will be an excess of tritium returned from the field. The excess tritium needs to be stored for future use, which might be several years away. A safe and cost effective means for long term storage of tritium is needed. Storing tritium in a solid metal tritide is preferred to storing tritium as a gas, because a metal tritide can store tritium in a compact form and the stored tritium will not be released until heat is applied to increase its temperature to several hundred degrees centigrade. Storing tritium as a tritide is safer and more cost effective than as a gas. Several candidate metal hydride materials have been evaluated for long term tritium storage. They include uranium, La-Ni-Al alloys, zirconium and titanium. The criteria used include material cost, radioactivity, stability to air, storage capacity, storage pressure, loading and unloading conditions, and helium retention. Titanium has the best combination of properties and is recommended for long term tritium storage.},
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place = {United States},
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month = {12}
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