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The drive to Kairos Power’s reactor demonstration site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is not only scenic—it’s historic. Nearly 85 years ago, roughly 30,000 construction workers transformed orchards and farmland into a key Manhattan Project site. Depending on your route, you may pass by one of the three gatehouses that were once military checkpoints controlling access to Atomic Energy Commission production facilities.
F. A. Koehler, Jr., B. D. Craft, J. Ashe, H. A. Woltermann
Nuclear Technology | Volume 25 | Number 3 | March 1975 | Pages 497-501
Technical Paper | Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24387
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Mound Laboratory is engaged in the recovery of tritium from waste materials generated at U.S. Atomic Energy Commission sites. A scrubber system for tritium removal has been designed and constructed at Mound Laboratory. The solutions to be analyzed are first boiled to dryness, and then baked 1 h at 500°C using H2SO4, HCl, or HNO3 as a carrier. The vapors from these solutions are passed through (a) a condenser to remove the bulk of the acid vapors, (b) an NaOH scrubber to remove acid fumes, (c) a mist eliminator to entrap fine mist particles, and (d) a molecular sieve bed to remove all traces of tritiated water. Environmental release is monitored by a Kanne electrometer system which measures the tritium content of the effluent. Use of the scrubber system yields residues with beta counts of <50 count/min with minimal release of tritium to the environment.