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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.
Nobuyuki M. Masaki, Takakuni Hirabayashi, Masakatsu Saeki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 1337-1342
Tritium Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39874
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Behavior of sorption of tritium on surfaces of stainless steel, aluminum and borosilicate glass has been studied using gaseous tritium with high specific activity and the newly obtained knowledge has been applied to chemical and thermal decontamination of tritium-sorbing materials. The behavior depends on a character of surface of each material. The total amount of sorbed-tritium is evaluated as a function of time of exposure to gaseous tritium. The depth-profile of sorbed-tritium is obtained by chemical etching method. From these results, practical samples of stainless steel were decontaminated. The vacuum-bakeout for 21, hours at 773 K and dissolution by dilute (5%) HCl for 2 hours enable us to obtain the decontamination factor of 200.
