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Hydrogen isotope exchange reaction rate in tritium and methane mixed gas

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Hydrogen isotope exchange reaction rate in tritium and methane mixed gas, as induced by tritium decay and beta radiation, has been experimentally measured. Initially T2 gas was filled to 40 kPa and 20 kPa of CH4 gas was added. The mixed gas spectrum was analyzed periodically by laser Raman spectrometry. The first order HT and H2 formation rates and T2 and CH4 decay rates by hydrogen isotope exchange reaction were observed between 2.9·10−3 h−1 and 4.8·10−3 h−1. Although the estimated hydrogen isotope exchange reaction rate was 1/20–1/10 slower than the rate of H2+T2 mixed gases, it was nearly equivalent to the ion formation rate by tritium beta radiation. This suggested that isotopic hydrogen radicals formed via ionization would disappear in the presence of methane.

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  1. Energy Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., 1168 Moriyama-cho, 316, Hitachi-shi, (Japan)

    Tatsuhiko Uda

  2. Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Tokai-mura Naka-gun, 319-11, Ibaraki-ken, (Japan)

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Uda, T., Okuno, K. & Naruse, Y. Hydrogen isotope exchange reaction rate in tritium and methane mixed gas. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 159, 145–154 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02041027

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