The major interest directions of ICSI Nuclear department in relation to the general objectives of the Institute are the following:
- Studies and research for the development of new types of hydrophobic catalysts and packing for catalyzed isotopic exchange processes of tritiated/deuterium heavy water;
- Experiments to determine the performance of different types of packing mixes in cryogenic distillation processes;
- Development of modeling programs for cryogenic distillation processes;
- Tritiated hydrogen/oxygen processes and recombination systems for tritiated effluents at room temperature;
- Permeation processes used both for the development of protection mechanisms against tritium permeation and for hydrogen isotopes separation;
- Tritium storage methods on metals and imtermetallic compounds;
- Methods and technologies for tritium recovery to be used in fusion reactors;
- Design of processes and plants for hydrogen isotopes separation;
- Detritiation methods of tritiated organic liquids and vacuum oils;
- Detritiation techniques of contaminated metals;
- The radioactive effects of tritium on ferritic-martensitic steels;
- Investigation of mechanical and physical properties of materials used in JET, ITER and detritiation facilities (WDS);
- Study of purification techniques for impure water injected into detritiation systems;
- Radioprotection techniques.