Use of Metal Hydrides for Handling Tritium

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Abstract
Savannah River Laboratory is developing new technology to improve the safety, reliability, and flexibility of processing tritium at the Savannah River Plant. This technology, based on metal hydrides, will also decrease the equipment size. The LaNi5-xAlx series of alloys is used for tritium storage applications and palladium coated on kieselguhr is used for pumping. In using metal hydrides to handle tritium, special considerations do exist and they must be understood, but they are not causes for concern.