Wednesday, May 24th
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Welcome

09:10

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Neutrino physics with Tritium and atomic
sources: Session 1

09:10

HamishRob er tson

Tritium and the Mass of the Neutrino

09:45

Seb astian
Böser

Towards an atomic tritium source for Project 8

10:10

Michael Sturm

Operation of the KATRIN molecular tritium
source

10:35

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Coffee break

10:55

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Neutrino physics with Tritium and atomic
sources: Session 2

10:55

Rub enSaakyanDetermination of absolute neutrino mass using
quantum technologies

11:20

Nicolode Gro ot

Tritium for cosmic neutrino detection withPtolemy

11:45

Marco Röllig

Paving the Way: Towards an Atomic Tritium
Source for KATRIN

12:10

Alec Lindman

Practicalities of Atomic Tritium for Project 8

12:35

Discussion / Perspectives

13:00

Casino

14:00

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Poster session

15:00

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Short breakxx

Lunch break15:15

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Tritium and dark matter experiments

15:15

M ichelle G alloway

Tritium traces in rare-event search experiments

15:40

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Short break

15:50

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Fusion R&D – Fuel Cycle/Materials: Session 1

15:50

Francisco
Alb er toHernandez
GonzalesThe Breeding Blanket, the Core of a Thermonuclear Fusion Reactor. Technology, EU Concepts
and Perspective

16:25

George Ana

Activities in support of ITER/DEMO

16:50

Alessia
Santucci

ENEA activities in tritium recovery and processing for DEMO fuel cycle and blanket

17:15

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Coffee break

17:35

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Fusion R&D – Fuel Cycle/Materials: Session 2

17:35

Christoph
Kirchlechner

The Tritium Research in the Fusion Materials
Laboratory

18:00

Knut Amis

The Research Training Group GRK 2721: Hydrogen Isotopes

18:25

FlorianPriester

Sieverts’ constant for H2 /D2 /T2 in eutectic PbLi

18:50

Discussion / Perspectives

19:15

Walk to Dinner

19:30

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Thursday, May 25th
09:00

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Tritium processing (experience and lessonslearned)

09:00

Xavier Lefebvre

Experience/Lessons learnt during DTE2 in AGHS

09:30

Ian Castilo

Tritium Processing Experience at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL)

10:00

Stefan Welte

Development & Operation of the TLK tritium loop

10:30

Rob er t Michling

The ITER Tritium Plant – Operation and Analytical Needs

11:00

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Coffee break

11:20

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Tritium analytics and application

11:20

Robin Größle

Tritium Analytics in the powers of ten

11:45

Christian Grisolia

Outcomes of the TRANSAT (Transversal actionsfor tritium) EU project

12:10

Yuji Hatano

Tritium Research Activities in Hydrogen Isotope
Research Center, University of Toyama

12:35

Helmut Telle

Raman spectroscopy of tritiated molecules: theGood, the Bad and the Ugly

13:00

CasinoLunch break

14:00

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Poster session

15:00

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Short break

15:10

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Discussion & Perspectivesxxii

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In addition, part of the project deals
with radiotoxicity, radioecology, radiobiology and dosimetry on tritiated particles produced during dis-mantling, whose impacts have neverbeen addressed before. The resultsof these activities will be also presented.

Tritium Research Activities in Hydrogen Isotope
Research Center, University of Toyama
Yuji Hatano (University of Toyama), Masanori Hara (University of Toyama), Masao
Matsuyama (University of Toyama)

Hydrogen Isotope Research Center characteristic x-rays. Because of far(HRC), University of Toyama, Japan larger escape depths of x-rays thanhas been licensed to use 8 TBq of β-rays at the same energy, tritium
tritium per day. This handling ca- content in a solid sample can be evalpability of tritium allows to perform uated by x-ray measurements. Noninvestigations on tritium measure- destructive depth profiling is possiments, tritium-material interactions ble by analysing x-ray spectrum withand preparation of tritiated targets consideration of generation and atfor nuclear reaction studies. The tenuation of x-rays in a sample. A
objective of this presentation is to thin beryllium windows covered byintroduce several tritium measure- high-Z material layer allows the evalment techniques developed in HRC uation of tritium content in gas andtogether with recent activities on tri- liquid phases from outside of thetium target fabrication.
container.
β-ray induced x-ray spectrometry HRC also developed a high sensitiv(BIXS) has been developed in HRC ity calorimeter capable to evaluate[1]. The escape depth of β-rays from the amount of tritium as low as 40
tritium in a solid are just a few hun- MBq [2]. In Japan, the amount ofdred nanometers to a few microm- tritium allowed to handle without
eters, depending on density of the control by regulations is limited tosolid. Hence, it is difficult to mea- be less than 1 GBq. However, it issure tritium content in a solid and difficult to evaluate and control trithat in gas and liquid phases from tium content in imported products.
outside of a container by β-ray count- This calorimeter is helping the seing. Nevertheless, interactions be- curity authority of Japan via nontween β-rays and matters result in destructive measurement of tritium
generation of bremsstrahlung and content in imported products.

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