Status and research progress at the Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe

The Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe (TLK) has been mainly designed for the con duction of technological experiments relevant to fusion under simulation of the conditions actually expected in the various tritium processing systems . Presently ongoing experimental and design work is almost exclusively orie nted towards the needs of JET and ITER-H-FEAT. Basic research, while increa sing in importance, plays predominantly a complementary role. This paper pr esents the most recent progress and developments related to the technologic al and applied experiments at the TLK. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All r ights reserved.