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Nuclear Research Activities NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPE TECHNOLOGIES RM

Nuclear Research Activities NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPE TECHNOLOGIES RM VALCEA May, 2006. GENERAL PRESENTATION OF ICIT. MAIN ACTIVITIES :

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Nuclear Research Activities NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPE TECHNOLOGIES RM

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  1. Nuclear Research Activities NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPE TECHNOLOGIES RM VALCEA May, 2006

  2. GENERAL PRESENTATION OF ICIT MAIN ACTIVITIES: • Equilibrium research and isotopes separation (tritium, deuterium), including industrials pilot plants level; • Equilibrium research and gases separation process, purification technologies and highly recuperative system; • Cryogenic installation and technologies for separation, purification and gases liquefaction (argon, helium, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, oxygen); NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  3. GENERAL PRESENTATION OF ICIT MAIN ACTIVITIES: • Technologies for heavy water separation, technical analysis and tritium analysis; • Turbo molecular pumps, vacuum accessories, membranes compressors, cryogenic pumps; • Heavy water etalons, depleted water; • Risk studies for chemical and petrochemical plants; • Static and dynamic equilibration analysis. NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  4. Cryogenic Resilience Experimental Stand NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  5. Tritium Removal Facility WHY TRF IN ROMANIA ? • Rising the tritium level in heavy water from CERNAVODA NPP (>32 Ci/kg in 2005) • Environment and human contamination risk • New requirements in 2007 after Romania join EU • Tritium application for fusion technologies – Romania can offer tritium for fusion reactor NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  6. Tritium Removal Facility Background • ICIT experience in catalyst manufacture; • ICIT experience in technological processes of catalytic exchange; • Operating and perfection of isotopic catalytic exchange plant for last 20 years; • Technological equipment and analysis systems. NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  7. Tritium Removal Facility Technologies for tritium separation developed by ICIT NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  8. Tritium Removal Facility Basic Design NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  9. Tritium Removal Facility Implementing the technology WHERE? CNE PROD Cernavoda (or any CANDU) ITER NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  10. Inside View of Pilot Plant For Deuterium and Tritium Separation NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  11. H2 • HR – Helium refrigerator • CD1, CD2 – Cryogenic distillation Condenser H2O HR Heater Tritiated Feed Water CD P IEC LPCE Column H2, HT CD 1 Potential combination of WDS and ISS at ITER ICIT PILOT PLANT Catalytic isotopic exchange tritiated heavy water - deuterium, followed by cryogenic distillation Tritium Depleted Water Tritium Storage System Tritium Analysis System D CD2 2 Boiler MONITORING AND SAFETY SYSTEMS Boiler Links between experimental modules for Tritium and Deuterium Separation Pilot Plant O2 WDS / ITER: LPCE ELECTROLYSES (PERMEATION) CRYOGENIC DISTILLATION H2O, HTO WDS / ICIT LPCE PURIFICATION CRYOGENIC DISTILLATION Electrolyser O2 Purifier EURATOM - FUSION PROGRAM LINKS BETWEEN WDS FOR ITER AND ICIT – WDS SYSTEM NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  12. EURATOM - FUSION PROGRAM • SEPARATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR HYDROGEN ISOTOPES SYSTEM FOR TRITIUM EXTRACTION FROM TRITIATED HEAVY WATER (TWO-TRIT/REM) • OPTIMISATION OF THE RATIO PACKAGE/CATALYST FOR THE SIMULTANEOUSTRANSFER OF TRITIUM AND DEUTERIUM IN A WATER DETRITIATION FACILITY (JW0-FT-2.1) • STUDIES ON TRITIUM PERMEATION INTO VARIOUS MATERIALS AS A FUNCTION OF GAS COMPOSITION, PARTIAL PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE (UT 4) • ENDURANCE TEST FOR THE CATALYST-PACKING MIXTURE PROPOSED FOR WATER DETRITIATION SYSTEM AT JET USING SCK-CEN MIXTURE (JW4 – FT – 2.20) NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  13. EURATOM - FUSION PROGRAM Application of ICIT work: • Heavy Water Detritiation Systems at CANDU/JET/ITER • Tritium technologies Potential beneficiaries: • Tritium Removal Facility in Romania • Detritiation technology applied at CNE PROD Cernavoda • EUROPEAN COMMUNITY Fusion Nuclear Research Programs NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  14. EURATOM - FUSION PROGRAM • Development of a PRM (Project Resource Management) and Standard Parts Catalogues in CATIA V5 for Tritium–containing System and Components for the WDS – ITER system • Potential beneficiaries: - EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ITER - Fusion Technology New task: Mechanical design package. Development of ITER PRM and Standard Parts Catalogues in CATIA V5 for Tritium-containing System and Components. TW5-TTFD-TPI-51 NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  15. Example of a P&ID Compressor Function in P&ID Parts selection mechanism in CATIA V5 Example of automatic Part Placement EURATOM - FUSION PROGRAM NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  16. EURATOM • Conceptual Design: overall diagnostics system, including gamma-ray tomography; • Conceptual Design: neutron attenuators; • Conceptual design: vacuum and in-vessel components; • Conceptual design: pure water circuit, mechanical design, automation and remote control; • Conceptual design: pure water circuit, water purity and radiochemical analysis. Beneficiaries: - EUROPEAN COMMUNITY - JET Operator Upgrade of gamma-ray cameras -neutron attenuators. Conceptual design.NUC - INT (FUS) / F7 NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  17. EURATOM • Potential beneficiaries: - EUROPEAN COMMUNITY JET and ITER - Fusion Technology • FUTURE TRENDS: • Detailed design of a “Tritium Concentrator” to be upgraded to water detritiation system for JET – FZK Karlsruhe/JET Operator; • “Coolant purification subsystem in the TBM” – FZK Karlsruhe; NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  18. IAEA PROGRAMES IAEA TECHNICAL COOPERATION SAFETY SYSTEMS AND TRITIUM MONITORING FOR CERNAVODA NPP OBJECTIVES: • Monitoring of tritium concetration in adsorbant materials (moleculare sieves, catalysts,columns packages); • Purification systems by selective adsorbants at cryogenic temperatures; • Implementation of the monitoring tritium system for the“Experimental Pilot Plant for Tritium and Deuterium Separation” NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  19. IAEA PROGRAMES ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOISOTOPE MEASUREMENTS. QUALITY ASSURANCE FOR RADIOISOTOPE LABORATORY • Environmental monitoring program in order to establish tritium baseline levels on and off Experimental Cryogenic Plant for Tritium and Deuterium Separation; • Hydrodynamics study on the Danube – Black Sea Channel using tritiated wastewater from a nuclear power plant as a tracer; • Natural sparkling water sources analysis based on tritium measurements; • Participation to sixth IAEA intercomparison of low-level tritium measurements in water (TRIC2000). NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  20. IAEA PROGRAMES Participation to Sixth IAEA Intercomparison of Low-level Tritium Measurements in Water TRIC2000 (Report IAEA, p. 22) NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  21. IAEA PROGRAMES Future Trends – Radiocarbon LSC Analysis and Environmental Applications • A new line sample preparation has been put on work and tests are going to be made in order to define this new analysis technique. NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES ICIT RM. VALCEA

  22. Summarize • ICIT develop research activities in nuclear field since 1970 • Actual potential of ICIT can grow up based on experienced from national and international research programs • ICIT want and has to be involved in EURATOM/JET research • ICIT is open to national and international cooperation

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