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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.
L. K. Heung
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 859-864
Tritium Safety | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30512
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In the new Replacement Tritium Facility (RTF) at the Savannah River Site, gloveboxes and stripper systems are used to minimize tritium release to the environment. The RTF was built to handle kilogram levels of tritium. It was started up and has been in operation since January 1994. The glovebox-stripper system has performed well in confining tritium leaks from the process. The tritium level in the gloveboxes has been maintained at below 0.1 Ci/m3 under normal conditions. During a large leak of tritium gas from the process to a glovebox, the tritium concentration in the glovebox shot up to about 4000 Ci/m3. However, there was no significant release of tritium to the environment. The tritium reading in the glovebox decreased to a 10 Ci/m3 level after 6 days of stripping. The performance of the glovebox-stripper system during this tritium leak and the possible factors for the long and slow decay of the tritium concentration in the glovebox are discussed in this paper.