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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 560-565
Safety; Measurement and Accountability; Operation and Maintenance; Application | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29806
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With a view to reprocessing the organic products originating in the tritiated compounds and tritium handling facilities, an industrial line was developed and constructed for specific treatment and packaging of such products. Decontamination is based on a drying process using dry vapor, which results in a decontamination factor of 80%. Furthermore, the volume of the products to be stored is reduced by a factor of 8 owing to waste compaction. This industrial line also cuts down the degassing rate of the waste storage drums which allows placing them on LLA interim storage sites, thus significantly reducing storage costs. Mention should be made that it also may provide to recover the resulting tritiated water for its further reprocessing.