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Figure 8: Tritium is a gas that due to its small size can easily penetrate and corrode. Enriching lithium with 7Li is important since 6Li suffers from a high tritium production Green 6Li (n,)t and blue 7Li(n,n)t
VI. Operation of the transmutator
Turning the attention to a single tank, e.g. the shown tank in Fig. 9 (tank shape is rectangular in this rendering), we describe a high-level overall operation in more details. The solution of the TRU and FLiBe is inserted via the INPUT from an external source. Once the tank is filled, the neutron source, and the CAN laser are turned on. The neutron source generates high energy (14 MeV) neutrons, the CAN laser generates laser rays to interact with the TRU /FLiBe solution, and assess the TRU, FLiBe (and future FP) concentration. Passing laser is modified or absorbed and re-radiated (by the solution) and collected by the laser detector. This information, together with response function collected by a microscopic current sensor, and a meter are processed in a computer and fed via a feedback circuit into a laser modulator controlling the laser properties such as the power level, amplitude shape, periods and phases, the relative operations, direction, etc. in order to be able to interrogate the solution efficiently; such program is pre-programmed and run by neural network.