Analysis of reactor experiments to study the transfer processes of generated tritium in lithium cps (capillary-porous system)

Abstract

To date, there have been many studies on the possibility of using lithium CPS as a plasma-facing material in fusion reactors. For use such liquid-lithium systems in fusion reactors, it is necessary to determine the interaction parameters of the surface facing the plasma with the working gases under conditions simulating the real operation of the facility, i.e. under conditions of neutron and gamma radiation. Therefore, this paper is devoted to the study of the processes of hydrogen isotopes interaction with lithium CPS under reactor irradiation. The experiments presented in work were carried out at the IVG1.M research reactor by using dynamic sorption method with the presence of deuterium under the lithium CPS sample.The results of reactor experiments simulation, in particular, the distribution of tritium concentration in lithium volume and traps, and the flows of tritium released through the inner surface of the CPS into the experimental chamber at different temperatures are presented.Based on the simulation results, the following interaction parameters of tritium with lithium were determined: temperature dependences of tritium capture constant by lithium and the dissociation constant of LiT. The obtained model can be applied for analysis of tritium generation and release from different lithium-containing materials used as a filling of CPS structure (for example, lithium and tin-lithium eutectics).