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ITER isotope separation system conceptual design description

Abstract

This paper presents integrated Isotope Separation System (ISS) designs for ITER based on requirements for plasma exhaust processing, neutral beam injection deuterium cleanup, pellet injector propellant detritiation, waste water detritiation, and breeding blanket detritiation. Specific ISS designs are developed for a machine with an aqueous lithium salt blanket (ALSB) and a machine with a solid ceramic breeding blanket (SBB). The differences in the ISS designs arising from the different blanket concepts are highlighted. It is found that the ISS designs for the two blanket concepts considered are very similar, with the only major difference being the requirements for an additional large water distillation column for ALSB water detritiation. The fact that the cryogenic distillation portions of the two ISS designs are almost identical, indicates that the cryogenic distillation cascade design is very flexible and can readily accommodate significant changes in processing requirements without requiring significant redesign. The front-end process for extraction of tritium from the ALSB is based on flash evaporation to separate the blanket water from the dissolved Li salt, with the tritiated water then being fed to the ISS for detritiation. This technology is considered to be relatively well understood in comparison to front-end processes for SBB detritiation.  More>>
Publication Date:
May 01, 1989
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
CFFTP-G-8925
Reference Number:
SCA: 070100; 070101; 052001; PA: AIX-23:027890; SN: 92000699353
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: May 1989
Subject:
07 ISOTOPES AND RADIATION SOURCES; 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; ISOTOPE SEPARATION; BREEDING BLANKETS; CERAMICS; CRYOGENICS; DEUTERIUM; DISTILLATION; EXTRACTION COLUMNS; LITHIUM HALIDES; TRITIUM; NUMERICAL DATA; 070100; 070101; 052001; PHYSICAL ISOTOPE SEPARATION; HEAVY WATER PRODUCTION; WASTE PROCESSING
OSTI ID:
10132795
Research Organizations:
Canadian Fusion Fuels Technology Project, Toronto, ON (Canada)
Country of Origin:
Canada
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE92622143; TRN: CA9200042027890
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS (US Sales Only); INIS
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
29 p.
Announcement Date:
Jul 04, 2005

Citation Formats

Busigin, A, Sood, S K, Kveton, O K, Dinner, P J, Murdoch, D K, and Leger, D. ITER isotope separation system conceptual design description. Canada: N. p., 1989. Web.
Busigin, A, Sood, S K, Kveton, O K, Dinner, P J, Murdoch, D K, & Leger, D. ITER isotope separation system conceptual design description. Canada.
Busigin, A, Sood, S K, Kveton, O K, Dinner, P J, Murdoch, D K, and Leger, D. 1989. "ITER isotope separation system conceptual design description." Canada.
@misc{etde_10132795,
title = {ITER isotope separation system conceptual design description}
author = {Busigin, A, Sood, S K, Kveton, O K, Dinner, P J, Murdoch, D K, and Leger, D}
abstractNote = {This paper presents integrated Isotope Separation System (ISS) designs for ITER based on requirements for plasma exhaust processing, neutral beam injection deuterium cleanup, pellet injector propellant detritiation, waste water detritiation, and breeding blanket detritiation. Specific ISS designs are developed for a machine with an aqueous lithium salt blanket (ALSB) and a machine with a solid ceramic breeding blanket (SBB). The differences in the ISS designs arising from the different blanket concepts are highlighted. It is found that the ISS designs for the two blanket concepts considered are very similar, with the only major difference being the requirements for an additional large water distillation column for ALSB water detritiation. The fact that the cryogenic distillation portions of the two ISS designs are almost identical, indicates that the cryogenic distillation cascade design is very flexible and can readily accommodate significant changes in processing requirements without requiring significant redesign. The front-end process for extraction of tritium from the ALSB is based on flash evaporation to separate the blanket water from the dissolved Li salt, with the tritiated water then being fed to the ISS for detritiation. This technology is considered to be relatively well understood in comparison to front-end processes for SBB detritiation. In the design of the cryogenic distillation portion of the ISS, it was found that the tritium inventory could be very large (> 600g) unless specific design measures were taken to reduce it. In the designs which are presented, the tritium inventory has been reduced to about 180g, which is less than the ITER single-failure release limit of 200g. Further design optimization and isolation of components is expected to reduce the inventory further.}
place = {Canada}
year = {1989}
month = {May}
}