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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.
T. Ishida, T. Hayashi, M. Yamada, T. Suzuki, K. Okuno
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 926-930
Fuel Cycle and Tritium Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963057
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In order to develop the more compact and more cost-effective tritium removal system for the fusion reactor, the new system of using gas separation membrane has been studied in Tritium Process Laboratory (TPD/Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI). To apply the scaled polyimide membrane module (hollow filament type) to the secondary confinement system, the basic-tritium recovery performance was summarized as a module itself from N2, air, Ar mixture, and recoveral performance was well demonstrated from existing glovebox (1.4 m3 : GB). The tritium recovery performance of the membrane module was well analyzed as a cross flow model, and removal from actual GB results was well simulated by the stand-alone performance data. Using this membrane module performance, new detritiation system was designed for the secondary confinement (GB).