Best Practices in Design and Delivery of a New Tritium Facility

Abstract

Tritium is of particular interest to the Canadian nuclear industry given that it is in the nature of CANDU® reactors to build up high levels of tritium over time. Since the last major Canadian tritium facility was built, expectations of best practice and ALARA have developed, including incorporation of international safety standards such as IEC61508, adoption of safety hierarchy concepts in risk reduction, the use of modern day technology and demonstrable requirements traceability techniques. The paper outlines best practices adopted and developed further by GE* in its design and delivery processes for tritium facilities.