The tritium quantity stored in a steel pressure vessel decreases with time because of helium-3 decay and permeation of tritium into the steel wall of the pressure vessel.Meanwhile,the tritium quantity permeating into ...The tritium quantity stored in a steel pressure vessel decreases with time because of helium-3 decay and permeation of tritium into the steel wall of the pressure vessel.Meanwhile,the tritium quantity permeating into the steel wall also decreases with time due to helium-3 decay and diffusion in and out of the wall of tritium.Tritium and helium-3 in the steel wall will cause hydrogen and helium embrittlement of the wall material,respectively,and thereby change the carrying capacity of the vessel.Taking contemporarily both decay and permeation of tritium within the vessel and decay and diffusion of tritium having permeated into the wall into consideration,the governing equations of tritium and helium-3 contents in the wall were established and solved,and relevant formulas were deduced.Through analytical calculations,curves of tritium and helium-3 contents versus radius and time were theoretically plotted,the contents spatio-temporal distributions laws were obtained,and a law about helium-3 contents distribution in steel wall of a spherical pressure vessel was discovered which was called the law of double helium-3 content.展开更多
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文摘The tritium quantity stored in a steel pressure vessel decreases with time because of helium-3 decay and permeation of tritium into the steel wall of the pressure vessel.Meanwhile,the tritium quantity permeating into the steel wall also decreases with time due to helium-3 decay and diffusion in and out of the wall of tritium.Tritium and helium-3 in the steel wall will cause hydrogen and helium embrittlement of the wall material,respectively,and thereby change the carrying capacity of the vessel.Taking contemporarily both decay and permeation of tritium within the vessel and decay and diffusion of tritium having permeated into the wall into consideration,the governing equations of tritium and helium-3 contents in the wall were established and solved,and relevant formulas were deduced.Through analytical calculations,curves of tritium and helium-3 contents versus radius and time were theoretically plotted,the contents spatio-temporal distributions laws were obtained,and a law about helium-3 contents distribution in steel wall of a spherical pressure vessel was discovered which was called the law of double helium-3 content.
