Update on the Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA)

In January 1977 the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory started designing the Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA) to support the national fusion energy program. We have now designed all the necessary systems and are proceeding with the fabrication and installation of equipment at the TSTA facility. TSTA will be capable of processing fusion-reactor quantities of DT gas by early 1982. Units which we have already built and installed include the building utilities and ventilation, the Emergency Tritium Cleanup (ETC) and Tritium Waste Treatment (TWT) modules, and the cryogenic Isotope Separation System (ISS). We have contracted for the outside fabrication of a DT Fuel Clean-Up (FCU) package to be installed in 1981. We are now assembling on site the plasma chamber evacuation (VAC) and DT gas Transfer Pumping (TPU) modules and the computer-based Master Data Acquisition and Control (MDAC) system