High temperature fusion reactor design [electronic resource].
- Published
- Argonne, Ill. : Argonne National Laboratory, 1979.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy. - Physical Description
- Pages: 9 : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators
- Argonne National Laboratory and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Summary
- Fusion energy may have unique advantages over other systems as a source for high temperature process heat. A conceptual design of a blanket for a 7 m tokamak reactor has been developed that is capable of producing 1100/sup 0/C process heat at a pressure of approximately 10 atmospheres. The design is based on the use of a falling bed of MgO spheres as the high temperature heat transfer system. By preheating the spheres with energy taken from the low temperature tritium breeding part of the blanket, 1086 MW of energy can be generated at 1100/sup 0/C from a system that produces 3000 MW of total energy while sustaining a tritium breeding ratio of 1.07. The tritium breeding is accomplished using Li/sub 2/O modules both in front of (6 cm thick) and behind (50 cm thick) the high temperature ducts. Steam is used as the first wall and front tritium breeding module coolant while helium is used in the rear tritium breeding region. The system produces 600 MW of net electricity for use on the grid.
- Report Numbers
- E 1.99:conf-790803-51
conf-790803-51 - Subject(s)
- Other Subject(s)
- Breeding Blankets
- Design
- Tokamak Type Reactors
- Breeding
- First Wall
- Gravitation
- Lithium Oxides
- Magnesium Oxides
- Process Heat
- Spherical Configuration
- Steam
- Tritium
- Alkali Metal Compounds
- Alkaline Earth Metal Compounds
- Beta Decay Radioisotopes
- Beta-Minus Decay Radioisotopes
- Chalcogenides
- Configuration
- Energy
- Heat
- Hydrogen Isotopes
- Isotopes
- Light Nuclei
- Lithium Compounds
- Magnesium Compounds
- Nuclear Fuel Conversion
- Nuclei
- Odd-Even Nuclei
- Oxides
- Oxygen Compounds
- Radioisotopes
- Reactor Components
- Thermonuclear Reactor Walls
- Thermonuclear Reactors
- Years Living Radioisotopes
- Note
- Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/1979.
"conf-790803-51"
14. intersociety energy conversion conference, Boston, MA, USA, 5 Aug 1979.
Stevens, H.C.; Harkness, S.D.; Gohar, M.Y.; dePaz, J.F. - Funding Information
- W-31-109-ENG-38
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