Development of advanced technologies for photochemical tritium recovery. Quarterly progress report, October 1, 1979-December 31, 1979

Technical Report · Mon Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:7085574

Herman, I P; Marling, J B

Promising systems for photochemical recovery of tritium from deuterium (tritium removal from heavy water inventories) have been identified based on calculations of the energy levels of tritium-bearing halogenated methanes. Chloroform (CDCl/sub 3/) is an attractive working molecule using the CO/sub 2/ laser-pumped ammonia laser at 12.08 ..mu.. to selectively dissociate CTCl/sub 3/. The CO/sub 2/ laser may be directly usable in dissociation of dichloromethane CDTCl/sub 2/ at 10.8 ..mu.., where CD/sub 2/Cl/sub 2/ is transparent. Isotopic exchange can be tied to heavy water to permit recycle of either system.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Livermore (USA). Lawrence Livermore Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 7085574
• Report Number(s): UCID-18509-79-4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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