Process for the safe intermediate and final storage of tritium

US4432892A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Nukem, LLC · DE

Inventors

• Horst Ebinger · Salmünster, DE
• Martin Kadner · Hamburg, DE
• Guenther Luthardt · Rodenbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 13, 1981
• Grant date: Feb 21, 1984
• Expiry date: May 13, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G21F9/34
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

For the safe intermediate and final storage of tritium after reaction with a hydride forming metal, it is embedded in concrete which, of course, does not lead to a complete exclusion from the environment since the tritium is able to permeate through the concrete. This is avoided by pressing to molded bodies at room temperature the tritium containing metal particles with powders of metals which have a low permeability for tritium.