The Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe: Laboratory design and equipment

Abstract The Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe has been planned as a central facility of the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center mainly for tritium technology research within the frame of the European Fusion Technology Program. Experimental work is supported by a well equipped infrastructure comprising conventional installations, tritium processing systems, and safety systems. This paper describes the laboratory layout, the infrastructure facilities and the inter-connections to the experimental systems.