Facility
Safety System
@HRC is equipped with various safety systems listed below to prevent the radiation damage from both HRC users and public. The facility has the systems fully serviced regularly every years.
- Tritium monitor system
- Water drain system
- Ventilation and exhaust cleanup system
- Tritium removal system for room air and glove boxes
- Glove boxes
- Entry-exit control system
- Tritium storage
- Power generation system
- Flammable gas detection system
Main experimental apparatus
100Ci tritium handling system
(ECR tritium plasma source, purification system and isotope separation system)
100Ci tritium handling system built in 1995 has capability to handle tritium at high concentration comparable to fusion reactors. The interaction between tritium plasma and various materials is investigated with ECR plasma source and spectroscopy techniques. Tritium used for discharge is recycled through purification and isotope separation. Namely, tritium is adsorbed on cryopanel, purified by permeation membrane, separated from other isotopes by gas chromatography and stored in metal getters. This tritium circulation system is based on the various elemental techniques developed in HRC. Extensive studies, however, are continued to improve recycle efficiency.
Main equipment list
- Low background liquid scintillation counter
- Surface analysis system (X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and secondary ion mass spectroscopy)
- Differential scanning calorimeter
- Tritium ion irradiation system
- X-ray diffractmeter
- Arc furnace
- Automatic PCT measurement device
- Infrared image furnace
- X-ray fluorescence spectrometer
- Super-high resolution mass spectrometer
- Atom probe microscope
- Ultra-high vacuum thin film deposition system
- Wide range X- and gamma-ray spectrometer
- Hydrogen isotope separation system
- Hydrogen isotope permeation device
- Battery charge-discharge test device
- Planetary ballmill
- Beta-ray induced X-ray spectrometer
- High vaccum micro-balance
- Fuel cell test device
- Scanning Electron Microscope
- Transmission Electron Microscope
- Imaging Plate
- Multi Nano Calorie Meter
- Barrel-sputtering System
