Design and performance of tritium measurement systems using electrolytic enrichment

Electrolytic enrichment of tritium with Fe-Ni and Ni-Ni electrodes and estimation of tritium enrichment factor using Fe-Ni electrodes.

“…The average tritium separation factor of about 26 obtained for the Fe-Ni electrodes in this work is almost identical to that obtained by previous resear chers such as Florkowski (1981) (/3=21) and lnoue and Tanaka-Miyamoto (1987) (/3=25.5). In recent works chemically pure iron was used as cathode material (e.g., Hartley, 1971). Pure iron such as soft iron (JIS C2504) used by Inoue and Tanaka-Miyamoto (1987), however, is not easily available for laboratory use.…”