[1L04-07] Separation and Recovery Processes

[1L06] Examination of costs for separating tritium discharged from nuclear facilities and refining it to helium-3

*Tadayuki Nakahama¹, Satoshi Seino¹, Takashi Nakagawa¹ (1. Osaka Univ.)

Keywords:helium-3 , tritium separation, nuclear power plant, Nuclear reprocessing facility, Price

The increasing demand and decreasing supply of ³He in recent years has increased its cost. Therefore, we investigated the process of refining ³He from tritium generated at nuclear facilities and calculated the ³He refining cost.