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Discovering, Making, and Testing New Materials: SRNL’s Center For Hierarchical Waste Form Materials
Savannah River National Laboratory researchers are building on the laboratory’s legacy of using cutting-edge science to effectively immobilize nuclear waste in innovative ways. As part of the Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials, SRNL is leveraging its depth of experience in radiological waste management to explore new frontiers in the industry.
Denis Jurkin, Günther Müllen, Jörg Aign
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 4 | November 2011 | Pages 1403-1406
Detritiation and Isotope Separation | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12693
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Tritium separation factors are extraordinarily important parameters in the development of efficient electrolysis systems for HTO waste volume reduction and tritium recovery purposes as well as for the reproducible analysis of tritium in low-level environmental samples. In the present work, a modular, actively cooled, continuous feed electrolysis setup has been developed. In order to provide a basis for the analysis of electrode specific tritium separation factors and to investigate the system performance, electrolysis of tritiated water was conducted with constant current density in strongly alkaline medium (1 M sodium hydroxide) using platinum as reference electrode material. Furthermore, the energy saving potential of an increase of the number of cell compartments was investigated.