Abstract
Behavior and improvement of the ZrCo based intermetallic materials for tritium recovery, storage and supply are studied. Compound ZrCo was found to be subject to disproportionation at high temperature under high hydrogen pressure to form ZrCo{sub 2} and ZrH{sub 2}. This process is completely reversed by vacuum treatment at temperature above 500{degrees}C for several hours. Kinetics of the disproportionation was described to be similar to phase transition that have apparent incuvation time to take place. The logarithmic reaction rate constant was related to the reciprocal temperature. With some precautions drawn from the results, this reaction is not a problem in practice. For the application that needs prolonged supply of relatively high-pressure tritium, solid solution of ZrCo and HfCo was developed as an improvement of the material. Materials obtained by arc melting with composition of Zr{sub (1-x)}Hf{sub x}Co (0
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