LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY
KEY FACILITIES
Weapons Engineering Tritium Facility
Weapons Engineering Tritium Facility (WETF) at TA-16 is a 5,000 square-foot, one-level building of reinforced concrete. It was designed to replace the aging High Pressure Tritium Laboratory at TA-33 and co-locate its operations with its operational group(s). WETF began operations in 1989. At LANL tritium experiments are used in research on fusion energy and to support the Stockpile Stewardship Program. Primary operations at WETF include repackaging, recycling, mixing and analyzing tritium gas. These services include repackaging tritium into smaller quantities than can be ordered from the DOE supplier, tritium gas purification, mixing tritium with other gases, analyzing gaseous tritium, and repackaging tritium and other gases to high pressures. WETF activities are related to weapons, laser fusion, accelerator research, and services to the materials science and technology, physics, chemistry, medium-energy physics, and energy divisions. The WETF Tritium Gas Handling Subsystem (TGHS) located in the process room is used for repackaging of tritium into smaller quantities, tritium gas purification, mixing tritium with other gases. WETF will handle gram quantities of tritium.
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