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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
J.A. ONeill, K.B. Woodall, J.R. Robins, F.E. Bartoszek, H.D. Morrison
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 1985 | Pages 2273-2277
Research and Development | 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-A24619
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A system for separation of tritium from protium based on selective multiphoton dissociation of trifluoromethane is under development. In addition to the selective multiphoton dissociation process, processes have been demonstrated for transfer of tritium from a water feed to the trifluoromethane process gas and for the separation of the tritiated dissociation product from the trifluoromethane after the laser dissociation cell. A simple dissociation cell design employing waveguiding of laser radiation in hollow cylindrical dielectrics has been tested. Work is continuing to integrate the experimental data into a computer model of the complete detritiation system which will allow us to determine if this process can provide the basis for low cost, low inventory tritium separation facilities.