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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Rudolf Avenhaus, Gert Spannagel
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 471-476
Safety; Measurement and Accountability; Operation and Maintenance; Application | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29791
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In this study an application is considered of the material accountancy principle to a subsystem of a tritium laboratory. The subsystem comprises the essential units of the so-called technical infrastructure, namely the transfer stations, the cleanup system, and the store; one experiment is representative of the “client.” The tritium transfers are batch wise. The accountancy effectiveness serves as a suitable yardstick which is evaluated under a variety of Doundary conditions typically encountered in operation of such a laboratory. Special interest is directed to the location of an assumed tritium anomaly. The analytical results are complemented by numerical examples.