Operational results of the safety systems of the tritium process laboratory of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency

Yamanishi, Toshihiko; Yamada, Masayuki; Suzuki, Takumi; Shu, Wataru; Kawamura, Yoshinori; Nakamura, Hirofumi; Iwai, Yasunori; Kobayashi, Kazuhiro; Isobe, Kanetsugu; Hoshi, Shuichi; Hayashi, Takumi

The construction of the building and safety systems of the TPL was completed until 1985. The operations of the safety systems with tritium have been started from March 1988. The amount of tritium held at the TPL was 13 PBq at March 2007. The average tritium concentration in a stream from a stack of the TPL to environment was 6.010 Bq/cm; and is 1/100 smaller than that of the regulation value for the concentration of HTO in the air in Japan. The safety operation results with tritium have thus been obtained. A set of failure data of several main components of the TPL was also obtained as the valuable data for fusion tritium facilities.