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Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
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.
R. A. Failor, P. C. Souers, S. G. Prussin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 1136-1140
Tritium Safety | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25291
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A critical evaluation was made of the experimental data regarding the rate of tritiated water formation. The evaluation tested the validity of the rate expression shown in Eq. 1. The experimental data does not appear to support the use of this rate expression for predicting tritiated water formation rates over wide ranges of initial tritium concentrations and large spans of reaction times. Modeling results are discussed which indicate the complexity of the tritiated water formation mechanism. The simplicity of Eq. 1 can not express the effects of the mechanistic complexity on the rate.
