COPPER-SUBSTITUTED, LITHIUM ZIRCONATE-BASED CERAMIC USABLE AS A TRITIUM PRODUCING MATERIAL

摘要

The invention relates to ceramic materials usable as tritium producingmaterial in a thermonuclear fusion reactor. These materials are constitutedby lithium zirconate substituted by copper in the form of solid solutionsof the type Li2ZrO3, whose compositions are in the hatched area of theternary diagram shown below.Preferably, they comply with the formula:Li 2 Zr CuxO3 with 0 x 0.8.