Experience with Maintenance of a Tritium Contaminated Test Component at TSTA

J. Barnes; W. Harbin; J. Anderson; J. Bartlit; T. Hayashi; H. Nakamura; M. Inoue; K. Hirata; K. Okuno; Y. Naruse

doi:dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30012

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Experience with Maintenance of a Tritium Contaminated Test Component at TSTA

J. Barnes, W. Harbin, J. Anderson, J. Bartlit, T. Hayashi, H. Nakamura, M. Inoue, K. Hirata, K. Okuno, Y. Naruse

Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 21 / Number 3P2B / May 1992 / Pages 1984-1986

Material and Tritium / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30012

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The United States Department of Energy and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) have installed a full-scale fuel cleanup system (JFCU) at the Los Alamos Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA) for testing. A component in the JFCU, the Ceramic Electrolysis Cell (CEC), was observed to have an internal leak after approximately one year of intermittent tests. This paper describes the experience of removal, decontamination and disassembly of this full-scale component.