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Development of a tritium recovery system from CANDU tritium removal facility

Journal Article · · Fusion Science and Technology
DOI:https://doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T22· OSTI ID:22429709

The main purpose of the Tritium Recovery System (TRS) is to reduce to a maximum possible extent the release of tritium from the facility following a tritium release in confinement boundaries and also to have provisions to recover both elemental and vapors tritium from the purging gases during maintenance and components replacement from various systems processing tritium. This work/paper proposes a configuration of Tritium Recovery System wherein elemental tritium and water vapors are recovered in a separated, parallel manner. The proposed TRS configuration is a combination of permeators, a platinum microreactor (MR) and a trickle bed reactor (TBR) and consists of two branches: one branch for elemental tritium recovery from tritiated deuterium gas and the second one for tritium recovery from streams containing a significant amount of water vapours but a low amount, below 5%, of tritiated gas. The two branches shall work in a complementary manner in such a way that the bleed stream from the permeators shall be further processed in the MR and TBR in view of achieving the required decontamination level. A preliminary evaluation of the proposed TRS in comparison with state of the art tritium recovery system from tritium processing facilities is also discussed. (authors)

OSTI ID:
22429709
Journal Information:
Fusion Science and Technology, Journal Name: Fusion Science and Technology Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 67; ISSN 1536-1055
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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