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A facility is described that allows safe handling of high tritium gas activity as dozens kilocuries in a regular laboratory environment. It is used to make and deliver into the target a mixture of specific isotopic composition with the contamination requirement of 10-7 v.f. for Z>1 elements, and recover it upon completion of operation. With this facility, efforts have been accomplished to investigate into the muon catalyzed fusion on two targets – liquid tritium and high-pressure tritium types. Also, the operation range was 0.1–120 MPa for pressure and 20–800 K for temperature and the amount of tritium used was about 100 kCi. The facility showed reliability in operation without indications of radiation beyond the safety level.
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Yukhimchuk, A., Apasov, V., Vinogradov, Y. et al. Facility for preparation of gas mixture in muon catalyzed fusion experiments. Hyperfine Interactions 119, 341–344 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012684819789
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012684819789