Processing and Safety Technologies
Directorates of Fusion Energy Research Tritium Technology Group
There are three hydrogen isotopes, protium, which is ordinary hydrogen, deuterium and tritium. Iｔ is recognized thaｔ a fusion reactor using the deulerium-tritium reacion is promising in the near future. Hence, tritium and deuterium are fuels of the fusion reactor, and protium is an impurity. A mixture gas of tritium and deuterium is supplied to the reactor, however; only a few percentages of the gas are burned. The mixture gas is therefore exhausted from the reactor, and is then re-supplied after removal of impurities such as protium and helium, which is a production of the deuterium-tritium reaction. This tritium processing system has been studied in our laboratory. Tritium is a radioisotope, and must carefully be treated. We have studied safety handling technologies of trilium also.
Subjects of tritium processing technologies
-Fuel Cycles
-Blanket Tritium Recovery
-Water Detritialion
Subjects of tritium safety handling technologies
-Confinement & Removal
-Decontaminalion
-Permeation & Retention
-Accountancy & Radiochemical Reactions
- Processing and Safety Technologies
- What is Tritium?
- Fusion Fuel Cycle
- Safety Handl ing Technology
- Safety Study
- Process Laboratory
- Publications
- Fusion Engineering Research TOP