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To solve the problem of light-water waste ditritiation, comparative calculations were performed for the two-temperature and one-temperature installations whose operation is based on chemical isotope exchange between hydrogen and water. The two-temperature installation ensures lower power consumption, but exceeds the one-temperature installation in size by an order of magnitude and more. A scheme of a combined installation was suggested, involving the fractional vacuum distillation of water in the step of waste detritiation and successively two- and one-temperature procedures of chemical isotope exchange in the water-hydrogen system in the step of tritium concentration.
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Original Russian Text © A.I. Kostylev, I.S. Ledovskoi, E.P. Magomedbekov, M.B. Rozenkevich, Yu.A. Sakharovsky, I.L. Selivanenko, A.I. Sobolev, S.N. Florya, 2014, published in Radiokhimiya, 2014, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp. 450–454.
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Kostylev, A.I., Ledovskoi, I.S., Magomedbekov, E.P. et al. Technical and economic characteristics of processes for water detritiation by chemical isotope exchange in the water-hydrogen system. Radiochemistry 56, 529–534 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1066362214050130
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