Nuclear chemistry

Lithium (medication)

Fusion power

Neutron flux

Tritium

Materials science

Chromatography

Ceramic

Nuclear physics

Endocrinology

Plasma

Radiochemistry

Fluence

Neutron

Hydrogen

Physics

Organic chemistry

Irradiation

Ampoule

Composite material

Analytical Chemistry (journal)

Medicine

Chemistry

Nuclear Materials and Energy

This work presents the preliminary experimental data on the study of gas release from two-phase lithium ceramics Li4SiO4-Li2TiO3 under neutron irradiation conditions. Experiments were carried out at the WWR-K research reactor (Almaty, Kazakhstan) for ∼4.3 days. The total neutron fluence during the irradiation was ∼1.8·1019n/cm2. In the course of irradiation, two experiments on ceramics heating during irradiation and two experiments with hydrogen isotopes (H2 and D2) supply into the experimental chamber with the sample were performed at a temperature of 680 °C and reactor power of 6 MW. During the entire irradiation, the gas composition in the continuously evacuated ampoule device with samples was recorded. The obtained dependences of the release of tritium-containing molecules and helium during the experiment were qualitatively analyzed.

Studies of two-phase lithium ceramics Li4SiO4-Li2TiO3 under conditions of neutron irradiation