Abstract
One of the most promising materials to produce tritium in fuel cycle of fusion facilities is the lead-lithium eutectic Pb15.7Li. Tritium will be generated in nuclear reactions in a lithium-containing material under the influence of neutron irradiation. However, nowadays a limited number of studies have been conducted with the eutectic of such a composition (with a lithium content of 15.7%) and consequently, there is a lack of data on mechanisms of tritium generation and release from Pb15.7Li. In this regard, there is an urgent necessity for research of tritium generation and release from Pb15.7 Li directly under neutron irradiation conditions. For these studies a differential method will be used, which consists in follows: a controlled flux of spectrally pure deuterium will be continuously fed into the experimental cell with the eutectic sample during the reactor experiment. The regulated flux of deuterium will be fed to the experimental cell with the Pb15.7Li sample using diffusion palladium-silver filter. The article describes the process of determination of deuterium flux supply modes into the experimental cell. The temperature dependences of deuterium penetration through diffusion palladium-silver filter are presented. The coefficients of diffusion, solubility and permeability of deuterium through a palladium-silver filter are estimated and the activation energies of these processes as well as the Arrhenius dependence are presented.
Highlights
To demonstrate the commercial highlights of thermonuclear power, a project on building a DEMO reactor is being implemented in the world
There is a limited number of survey works intended for the interaction of hydrogen isotopes with lead-lithium eutectics under the conditions of reactor irradiation [5]
It has been found that the breeding of tritium from the eutectic is of complex nature and its breeding is significantly affected by the hydrogen isotopes in a purge gas
Summary
To demonstrate the commercial highlights of thermonuclear power, a project on building a DEMO reactor is being implemented in the world. There is a limited number of survey works intended for the interaction of hydrogen isotopes with lead-lithium eutectics under the conditions of reactor irradiation [5] Within these studies, it has been found that the breeding of tritium from the eutectic is of complex nature and its breeding is significantly affected by the hydrogen isotopes in a purge gas. It has been found that the breeding of tritium from the eutectic is of complex nature and its breeding is significantly affected by the hydrogen isotopes in a purge gas To study this finding, the experiments to study generation and segregation of tritium from lead-lithium eutectics at a dynamic mode of supply of deuterium to the irradiation device with a Pb15.7Li eutectic will be performed at the IVG.1M reactor in the near future
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