Tritium systems: issues and answers

Conference · Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985 · J. Fusion Energy; (United States)

OSTI ID:6919753

Anderson, J L

The Office of Fusion Energy discusses tritium issues. The major issues where tritium technology has an impact on the fusion program is the fuel cycle and fuel reprocessing, safety and environment protection, and the breeding and blanket extraction systems. Work on the development of the fuel cycle and fuel reprocessing systems in the fuel program is being done. Cryogenic distillation as a means of separating hydrogen isotopes is a method being used. The author discusses the environmental, safety, and personnel protection systems that have to be evaluated. A photograph shows the facility. The TRIO experiment at Argonne is one where gamma-lithium aluminate was put into a specially designed cell, and put it in thef A-2 core position and irradiated the material, breeding tritium from the neutron interaction with lithium.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., Los Alamos, NM
• OSTI ID: 6919753
• Journal Information: J. Fusion Energy; (United States), Vol. 4:2/3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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TRITIUM
BREEDING
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TEST FACILITIES
BREEDING BLANKETS
BREEDING RATIO
DIFFUSION
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
FUEL CYCLE
ISOTOPE PRODUCTION
LITHIUM
MATERIALS TESTING
RADIATION PROTECTION
RECYCLING
THERMONUCLEAR REACTOR MATERIALS
TRITIUM RECOVERY
ALKALI METALS
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
CONVERSION RATIO
ELEMENTS
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
MATERIALS
METALS
NUCLEAR FUEL CONVERSION
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
RADIOISOTOPES
REACTOR COMPONENTS
RECOVERY
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