Fuel cleanup system for the tritium systems test assembly: design and experiments

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-708X(80)90255-0· OSTI ID:5466548

Kerr, E C; Bartlit, J R; Sherman, R H

A major subsystem of the Tritium Systems Test Assembly is the Fuel Cleanup System (FCU) whose functons are to: (1) remove impurities in the form of argon and tritiated methane, water, and ammonia from the reactor exhaust stream and (2) recover tritium for reuse from the tritiated impurities. To do this, a hybrid cleanup system has been designed which utilizes and will test concurrently two differing technologies - one based on disposable, hot metal (U and Ti) getter beds and a second based on regenerable cryogenic asdorption beds followed by catalytic oxidation of impurities to DTO and stackable gases and freezout of the resultant DTO to recover essentially all tritium for reuse.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos Scientific Lab., NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 5466548
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-80-1273; CONF-800427-8
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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