Contamination of Stainless Steel Type 316 by Tritium
Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 41 / Number 3P2 / May 2002 / Pages 746-750
Decontamination and Waste / Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22686
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Tritium distribution in stainless steel type 316 exposed to hydrogen containing 32% of tritium at room and elevated temperatures was studied using thermal desorption, analysis of bremsstrahlung spectrums and acid etching techniques. All samples exhibit a large fraction of the overall tritium inventory concentrated in a thin sub-surface layer of ≈15µm thickness, where tritium concentration is by ≈2 order of magnitude larger than that in the bulk. Observed tritium depth profiles are in contradiction with a classical mechanism of hydrogen penetration to metals by atomic diffusion.
