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Leading the charge: INL’s role in advancing HALEU production
Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts, from material recovery at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to commercial enrichment initiatives.
P.A. Finn, D.K. Sze, R.G. Clemmer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1589-1594
Material and Tritium | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29568
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The tritium recovery system for the U.S. ITER Li2O/Be water cooled blanket processes two separate helium purge streams to recovery tritium from the Li2O zones and the Be zones of the blanket, to process the waste products, and to recirculate the helium back to the blanket. The components are selected to minimize the tritium inventory of the recovery system, and to minimize waste products. The system is robust to either an increase in the tritium release rate or to an in-leak of water in the purge system. Three major components were used to process these streams, first, 5A molecular sieves at −196°C separate hydrogen from the helium, second, a solid oxide electrolysis unit is used to reduce all molecular water, and third, a palladium/silver diffuser is used to ensure that only hydrogen (H2, HT) species reach the cryogenic distillation unit. The total tritium process inventory is 20g. The total capital cost is ∼$14M. Technical advantages of a solid oxide electrolysis unit and a palladium/silver diffuser are presented.