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Development of the JAERI Fuel Cleanup System for Tests at the Tritium Systems Test Assembly
- Source :
- Fusion Technology. 19:1595-1600
- Publication Year :
- 1991
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 1991.
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Abstract
- The Tritium Process Laboratory (TPL) at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) has developed a Fuel Cleanup System (FCU) which accepts simulated fusion reactor exhaust and produces pure hydrogen isotopes and tritium-free waste. The major components are; a palladium diffuser, a catalytic reactor, cold traps, a ceramic electrolysis cell, and zirconium-cobalt beds. In 1988, an integrated FCU process loop was installed in the TPL. A number of “hot” runs were performed to study the system characteristics and improve performance. Under the US-Japan collaboration program, the “JAERI Fuel Cleanup System” (JFCU) was designed and fabricated by JAERI/TPL for testing at the Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA) in Los Alamos National Laboratory as a major subsystem of the simulated fusion fuel cycle. The JFCU was installed in the TSTA in early 1990.
- Subjects :
- Hydrogen
Fuel cycle
020209 energy
Nuclear engineering
General Engineering
chemistry.chemical_element
02 engineering and technology
Fusion power
01 natural sciences
010305 fluids & plasmas
System characteristics
chemistry
0103 physical sciences
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Environmental science
Tritium
National laboratory
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 07481896
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Fusion Technology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e3124044019243e63c736d09e6d54f98
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.13182/fst91-a29569