The effect of long-term heating on the tritium adsorption and desorption behavior of advanced core–shell breeding materials

Abstract

Abstract In order to efficiently grasp the tritium behavior in advanced core–shell breeding materials, this study adopts a route of injecting tritium out-of-pile to deal with the problems of fewer platforms, long periods, and high costs for traditional neutron irradiation-tritium release experiments. Here, tritium adsorption and desorption experiments were carried out with Li4TiO4–Li2TiO3 core–shell breeding materials before and after long-term heating up to 30 days. The purpose is to study whether the structural changes caused by long-term heating will affect the adsorption and desorption behavior of tritium on the sample surface. The results show that the lack of chemically adsorbed water caused by long-term heating will significantly weaken the tritium adsorption capacity of the sample, but will not affect the desorption behavior of Ar, 1% H2 + Ar and water vapor on tritium, so all samples show a very low tritium retention.