Published 2007
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Behaviour of depleted uranium as metal hydride in a storage vessel
- 1. Institute for Nuclear Research, PO Box 78, 1 Campului Street, 115400 Pitesti - Mioveni (Romania)
Description
Full text: The storage of hydrogen isotopes as metal hydrides is considered a safe and modern technique. The metal hydrides offer a great opportunity for improvement of tritium processing. They allow the design of safe, compact and efficient tritium handling equipment. The paper presents our experience in developing a technology of making experimental hydride storage vessels for tritium handling and processing. The vessel, using depleted uranium as metallic matrix, was tested to determine the experimental conditions for activation, loading and desorption hydrogen. Using depleted uranium, a hydrogen/metal ratio (H/Me) of 2.9 could be achieved. The equipment was tested by successive absorption/desorption cycles. (authors)
Availability note (English)
Available from author(s) or National R and D Institute for Cryogenics and Isotopic Technologies - ICIT, PO Box 10, Uzinei Street No. 4, RO-240050 Rm. Valcea (RO)Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- National R and D Institute for Cryogenics and Isotopic Technologies - ICIT
- Imprint Place
- Rm. Valcea (Romania)
- Imprint Title
- The 13th International ICIT Conference Progress in Cryogenics and Isotopes Separation. Proceedings
- Imprint Pagination
- 313 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 87
- ISSN
- 1582-2575
Conference
- Title
- 13. international ICIT conference Progress in Cryogenics and Isotopes Separation. Proceedings
- Dates
- 7-9 Nov 2007
- Place
- Calimanesti-Caciulata (Romania)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Romania
- Country of Input or Organization
- Romania
- INIS RN
- 39112101
- Subject category
- S08: HYDROGEN; S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- ABSORPTION; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; CONTAINERS; DEPLETED URANIUM; DESORPTION; EQUIPMENT; HYDRIDES; HYDROGEN STORAGE; TRITIUM; TRITIUM RECOVERY
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; ELEMENTS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; METALS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES; SORPTION; STORAGE; URANIUM; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Notes
- Available in abstract form only, full text entered this record
- Funding organization
- National Authority for Scientific Research, Ministry of Education and Research, Bucharest (Romania)