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The Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA) was a facility at 
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, ...
dedicated to the development and demonstration of technologies required for fusion
Fusion, or synthesis, is the process of combining two or more distinct entities into a new whole.
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Science and technology Physics
*Nuclear fusion, multiple atomic nuclei combining to form one or more different atomic nucl ...
-relevant deuterium
Deuterium (or hydrogen-2, symbol or deuterium, also known as heavy hydrogen) is one of two Stable isotope ratio, stable isotopes of hydrogen (the other being Hydrogen atom, protium, or hydrogen-1). The atomic nucleus, nucleus of a deuterium ato ...
-tritium
Tritium ( or , ) or hydrogen-3 (symbol T or H) is a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen with half-life about 12 years. The nucleus of tritium (t, sometimes called a ''triton'') contains one proton and two neutrons, whereas the nucleus o ...
processing. Facility design was launched in 1977. It was commissioned in 1982, and the first tritium
Tritium ( or , ) or hydrogen-3 (symbol T or H) is a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen with half-life about 12 years. The nucleus of tritium (t, sometimes called a ''triton'') contains one proton and two neutrons, whereas the nucleus o ...
was processed in 1984. The maximum tritium inventory was 140 grams.Willms, R.S., K. Kobayashi, Y. Iwai, T. Hayashi, S. O'hira, M. Nishi, D. Hyatt and R.V. Carlson; "Behavior of tritium in the TSTA test cell combined with operation of the Experimental Tritium Cleanup (ETC) system"; Fusion Engineering and Design, 61-62, 575 - 583 (2002).
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