The receipt, storage and distribution of tritium in ETHEL

Conference · Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1992 · Fusion Technology; (United States)

OSTI ID:5044978

Bourdon, J; Vassallo, G; Magni, G ^[1]

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1. Commission of the European Communities, Inst. for Safety Technology, JRC-Ispra Establishment, I-21020 Ispra (IT)

ETHEL, a new research facility located at the JRC-Ispra, is envisaged to be licensed for 37 PBq (1 MCi or 100 g) of tritium. A central service of laboratory operations is the overall control of tritium within the facility. The intended management of tritium has been developed on the basis of ETHEL's general safety criteria and the requirements of typical experiments with regard to quantity, quality and frequency of tritium distributions. This paper describes the method of supplying tritium to the laboratory, its accountancy and long-term storage, its distribution to individual experiments and, finally, its retrieval from experiments or the laboratory's tritium recovery system.

• OSTI ID: 5044978
• Report Number(s): CONF-910920-; CODEN: FUSTE
• Journal Information: Fusion Technology; (United States), Vol. 21:2; Conference: 4. topical meeting on tritium technology in fission, fusion, and isotopic applications, Albuquerque, NM (United States), 29 Sep - 4 Oct 1991; ISSN 0748-1896
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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