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Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
M. Glugla, R.D. Penzhorn, J.L. Anderson, J.R. Bartlit
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 683-688
Tritium Properties and Interactions with Material | Proceedings of the Third Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1-6, 1988) | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25213
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Based on experimental results on the catalytic decomposition of ammonia and methane into the elements a process for DT - recycling of molecular and chemically bonded deuterium / tritium from the fusion reactor exhaust gas is under development at KfK. In this context typical plasma contaminants like methane and ammonia tritiated to nearly 50% were synthesized on a 1 to 2·1012 Bq (30 to 50 Ci) scale. The radiolytic reactions were followed from the rate of disappearance of ammonia and the formation of nitrogen / hydrogen in case of tritiated ammonia and from the disappearance of methane and the formation of hydrogen in case of tritiated methane. The apparent half-lifes of tritiated methane and tritiated ammonia were determined to be approx. 250 hours and 550 hours respectively. The catalytic cracking reactions of tritiated ammonia and tritiated methane followed the behaviour anticipated from corresponding cold experiments.