Correlation between hydrogen isotope permeation through niobium and bulk oxygen concentration: Possible influence of oxygen on tritium recovery from Pb-Li by vacuum permeator

Fusion Science and Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 990-994

  Hatano, Yuji ^a   Busnyuk, Andrei ^b   Livshits, Alexander ^b   Homma, Hirofumi ^a   Matsuyama, Masao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b BONCH BRUEVICH SAINT PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; HYDROGEN; PERMEATION; THERMAL EFFECTS; TRITIUM; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM;

BLANKET SYSTEM; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; TRITIUM RECOVERY;

ISOTOPES;

EID: 36248987817     PISSN: 15361055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST07-A1623     Document Type: Article

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