A New Suggested System Design for Tritium Production

Abstract

A study has been carried out to put a primary design for tritium production system by radiating one of lithium compounds in the vertical nuclear reactor channels. Pure mono crystal of lithium oxide has been selected as primary substance to produce the tritium which has good physical properties suitable for this purpose. We found that the product of one gram from tritium is needed to use eighteen vertical channels from 14^th July, reactor (Baghdad, Iraq) to irradiate about 1437gm from natural lithium oxide. This study deals with the probability to use enriched lithium for this purpose. According to these properties tritium production system was built and its requirements are explained. The experimental approach was used in this study.