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With increasing interest in high specific activity tritium labeling, there has been a corresponding interest in improved tritium handling. It has long been known that large amounts of tritium may be sequestered on uranium metal and released from it as needed by controlled heating. The TRI-SORBER is the first completely self-contained commercial realization of this proven principal. The key to the operation of the TRI-SORBER is facile and quantitative reversible formation and thermal decomposition of uranium tritide, UT3. At 250-300oC, depleted uranium, 238U, in the presence of T2, is rapidly converted to the tritide. In turn, the tritide may be decomposed back to the metal and tritium gas by further heating. Once UT3 has formed and decomposed, thereby reducing the size of the metal particles from -60 mesh to 1 micron or less, the resultant powdered uranium will then react with T2 at room temperature.