Tritium Recovery from Contaminated Water Via Infrared Laser Multiple-photon Dissociation

Tritium Recovery from Contaminated Water Via Infrared Laser Multiple-photon Dissociation
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The present aim of this program is photochemical removal of the 7 ppM concentration of DTO in D2O that is presently found in active heavy water fission reactors (e.g., Savannah River). Though only T/D recovery is under present scrutiny at LLNL, T/H separation can also be performed using infrared laser multiple-photon dissociation (MPD). Laser-based tritium recovery from both light and heavy water may prove to be of great importance in fusion reactors. The overall cycle of the process under investigation entails initial tritiation of a fully deuterated working molecule by catalyzed chemical exchange with the contaminated heavy water, followed by isotopically-selective, room temperature, gas phase, pulsed infrared laser MPD of only the monotritiated molecules, among the transparent, majority fully deuterated specie. In the MPD interaction, the resonant molecule selectively absorbs 30 or more infrared quanta and then dissociates. The tritium-enriched photoproducts are easily removed from the reactant mainstream by physical separation means. Then the cycle continues with retritiation of the photochemically-detritiated working molecule.

Tritium Removal from Contaminated Water Via Infrared Laser Multiple-photon Dissociation

Tritium Removal from Contaminated Water Via Infrared Laser Multiple-photon Dissociation
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Isotope separation by means of infrared-laser multiple-photon dissociation offers an efficient way to recover tritium from contaminated light or heavy water found in fission and fusion reactors. For tritium recovery from heavy water, chemical exchange of tritium into deuterated chloroform is followed by selective laser dissociation of tritiated chloroform and removal of the tritiated photoproduct, TCl. The single-step separation factor is at least 2700 and is probably greater than 5000. Here we present a description of the tritium recovery process, along with recent accomplishments in photochemical studies and engineering analysis of a recovery system.

Laser Separation of Hydrogen Isotopes

Laser Separation of Hydrogen Isotopes
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Single-step enrichment factors exceeding 15,000 have been observed in the removal of tritium-from-deuterium by 12 .mu.m laser multiple-photon dissociation of chloroform. The photochemistry and photophysics of this process is discussed along with prospects for implementation of this method in practical heavy water reactor detritiation. 7 refs., 7 figs., 1 tab.

Government Reports Annual Index

Government Reports Annual Index
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Sections 1-2. Keyword Index.--Section 3. Personal author index.--Section 4. Corporate author index.-- Section 5. Contract/grant number index, NTIS order/report number index 1-E.--Section 6. NTIS order/report number index F-Z.