Safety in Tritium handling technology:

The use of tritium as a basic fuel material in a thermonuclear fusion reactor raises particular safety issues due to the combined effects of its physico-chemical properties and radioactive nature. Furthermore the possibility of attaining further significant progresses in developing and demonstrating...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Dordrecht Kluwer Acad. Publ. 1993
Schriftenreihe:[Euro courses / Nuclear science and Technology] 1
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Zusammenfassung:The use of tritium as a basic fuel material in a thermonuclear fusion reactor raises particular safety issues due to the combined effects of its physico-chemical properties and radioactive nature. Furthermore the possibility of attaining further significant progresses in developing and demonstrating the feasibility of tritium burning devices relies on the handling of tritium macroquantities, say ten grammes, in a safe and reliable manner
It is also undoubted that, apart from technological constraints, any validation and exploitation of thermonuclear fusion as a source of energy will be strongly conditioned by the application of stringent operational and environmental safety criteria as it derives from norms of the modern legislation and public acceptance considerations
The aim of this publication is to illustrate the most prominent safety related aspects associated with the safe operation, maintenance and experimental utilization of a tritium handling facility. Beside the need of safe and reliable systems for tritium containment, monitoring and storage, particular attention is devoted to problems linked with tritium-material interaction and tritium processing
Beschreibung:XI, 236 S. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:0792325117