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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 1985 | Pages 2108-2110
Monitoring and Measurement | Proceedings of the Second National Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Dayton, Ohio, April 30 to May 2, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24595
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In preparation for an in-pile study of tritium release from lithium materials, a sweep gas and radioassay system was tested in Penn State's TRIGA reactor during both steady state and pulsed operation. Sweep gas helium, containing propane, carries tracer level tritium generated in a lithium oxalate powder to a flow-through ionization chamber for radioassay. High tritium sensitivity, the absence of tritium plateout and hysteresis, and good radiological control were demonstrated, encouraging adoption of this approach in our materials study.