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Sometimes, cops and robbers is more than just a kid’s game. At the Department of Energy’s national laboratories, researchers are channeling their inner saboteurs to discover vulnerabilities in next-generation nuclear reactors, making sure that they’re as safe as possible before they’re even constructed.
E. L. Grigorescu, A. C. Razdolescu, M. Sahagia, P. Cassette, M. Tanase
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 48 | Number 1 | July-August 2005 | Pages 382-385
Technical Paper | Tritium Science and Technology - Tritium Measurement, Monitoring, and Accountancy | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A948
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An original method, based on the continuous circulation in a closed circuit of saturated HTO vapour, is presented. The saturated vapour are obtained by bubbling from vials containing different tritium standard solutions (IFIN-HH-TDCR method). The main difference from the usual method, elaborated by Osborne, is the use of saturated vapour, which eliminates the measurement in liquid scintillator of the recovered non-saturated vapour. Tritium Monitors type MT-1 made in IFIN-HH were calibrated. The measurements were carried out for three levels of the activity concentration: 0.0180, 0.701 and 1.73 MBq.g-1. The mean response was R=2.25.10-13 A/(MBq m-3) with a relative combined uncertainty lower than 4%. The value agrees with the result obtained with the Osborne method, ROs=2.30.10-13A/(MBq m-3) and with the estimated theoretical value, 2.29 10-13A/(MBq m-3)