Combined gettering and molten salt process for tritium recovery from lithium

Conference · Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5043723

Sze, D K; Finn, P A; Bartlit, J; Tanaka, S; Teria, T; Yamawaki, M

A new tritium recovery concept from lithium has been developed as part of the US/Japan collaboration on Reversed-Field Pinch Reactor Design Studies. This concept combines the ..gamma..-gettering process as the front end to recover tritium from the coolant, and a molten salt recovery process to extract tritium for fuel processing. A secondary lithium is used to regenerate the tritium from the gettering bed and, in the process, increases the tritium concentration by a factor of about 20. That way, the required size of the molten salt process becomes very small. A potential problem is the possible poisoning of the gettering bed by the salt dissolved in lithium. 16 refs., 6 figs.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA); Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA); Tokyo Univ., Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 5043723
• Report Number(s): CONF-880417-13; CONF-880417-; ON: DE88009932
• Resource Relation: Conference: International symposium on fusion nuclear technology, Tokyo, Japan, 10 Apr 1988
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
REVERSE-FIELD PINCH
TRITIUM RECOVERY
GETTERING
LITHIUM
MOLTEN SALTS
ALKALI METALS
ELEMENTS
METALS
PINCH EFFECT
RECOVERY
SALTS
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