Conceptual design of an emergency tritium clean-up system

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:6687974

Muller, M E

The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) has been selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) to design, build, and operate a facility to demonstrate the operability of the tritium-related subsystems that would be required to successfully develop fusion reactor systems. An emergency tritium clean-up subsystem (ETC) for this facility will be designed to remove tritium from the cell atmosphere if an accident causes the primary and secondary tritium containment to be breached. Conceptually, the ETC will process cell air at the rate of 0.65 actual m/sup 3//s and will achieve an overall decontamination factor of 10/sup 6/ per tritium oxide (T/sub 2/O). Following the maximum credible release of 100 g of tritium, the ETC will restore the cell to opertional status within 24 h without a significant release of tritium to the environment.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 6687974
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-78-1320; CONF-780508-43; TRN: 78-017005
• Resource Relation: Conference: 3. meeting on the technology of controlled thermonuclear fusion, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 9 May 1978
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
TRITIUM
LEAKS
REMOVAL
ACCIDENTS
CLEANING
DECONTAMINATION
DESIGN
EMERGENCY PLAN
MAXIMUM CREDIBLE ACCIDENT
OXIDATION
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
TRITIUM OXIDES
WATER
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
DESIGN BASIS ACCIDENTS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LABELLED COMPOUNDS
LIGHT NUCLEI
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
RADIOISOTOPES
REACTOR ACCIDENTS
SAFETY
TRITIUM COMPOUNDS
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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