Evaluation of ZrCo and other getters for Tritium handling and storage

A 5 Mg/annum Combined Electrolysis Catalytic Exchange (CECE) Facility was designed, constructed and operated to demonstrate the CECE process for heavy water detritiation. In this demonstration faci...

Design and Operational Experience with a Pilot-Scale CECE Detritiation Process

The paper presents the results of more than a year of running a pilot setup for separation of hydrogen isotopes using catalytic isotopic exchange between hydrogen and liquid water. The setup is 5 m...

Installations for Separation of Hydrogen Isotopes by the Method of Chemical Isotopic Exchange in the “Water - Hydrogen” System

Based upon the authors’ long experience and upon a literature review, this paper presents an assessment regarding up-to-date R&D activities related to development and application of liquid phase catalytic exchange (LPCE) technology for tritium separation from tritiated water, produced in fission and fusion nuclear reactors. The assessment is focused on key elements of the LPCE process, mixed catalytic packing and as a result of the assessment, few recommendations for selecting the most suitable mixed catalytic packing are given. A new improved mixed catalytic packing (COMPACK C–P 001) was manufactured and proposed to be used in the future Tritium Removal Facility from Cernavoda CANDU NPP (Romania).

An assessment on hydrogen isotopes separation by liquid phase catalytic exchange process

There is an increasing demand for nuclear reactors, driven by the global need for low CO2 producing energy sources The use of light (H2O) or heavy water (D2O) in a nuclear reactor environment prod

Graphene Oxide Membranes for Isotopic Water Mixture Filtration: Preparation, Physicochemical Characterization, and Performance Assessment.

The Tritium Extraction Plant being built at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories (CRNL) will be the first industrial scale demonstration of the Liquid Phase Catalytic Exchange (LPCE) process for transf...

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Recovery and packaging of tritium from Canadian heavy water reactors

Recovery and packaging of tritium from Canadian heavy water reactors