Between fusion and cosmology - the future of the Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe

The TLK was commissioned with tritium in 1994. Since then it has continuously improved its infrastructure and expanded its experimental activities. With a fully closed tritium loop and the licence to handle 40 g of tritium the TLK is an almost unique facility. More than 10 glove box systems with a total volume of about 125 m are operated to house experiments and infrastructure facilities on an area of nearly 1000 m. Today TLK has 22 g tritium on site and is strongly involved in R&D tasks for both, fusion and cosmology.