scholarly journals Economics and Environmental Compatibility of Fusion Reactors —Its Analysis and Coming Issues— 2.Review of Fusion Reactor Design and Economic Study

2002 ◽  
Vol 78 (11) ◽  
pp. 1172-1178
Author(s):  
Yuichi OGAWA ◽  
Tomoaki YOSHIDA
1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.A. Tahir ◽  
D.H.H. Hoffmann

This paper discusses the implications of using different fuels, including pure deuterium, deuterium–tritium, deuterium–helium3, and proton–boron11, on safety and environmental compatibility of the fusion reactor, as well as on the driver requirements. Due to present-day technology limitations, it seems likely that the first generation of the fusion reactors will be based on a deuterium–tritium cycle. Such a scheme, however, would pose serious problems, including neutron activation and tritium handling. We show that by developing low-level tritium inertial fusion targets, one may substantially reduce the daily use of tritium in the reactor that may ultimately lead to a reduction in the overall tritium inventory in the power plant. Such reduced tritium targets will still generate sufficient energy to run the power plant economically.


Author(s):  
E. Ruedl ◽  
P. Schiller

The low Z metal aluminium is a potential matrix material for the first wall in fusion reactors. A drawback in the application of A1 is the rel= atively high amount of He produced in it under fusion reactor conditions. Knowledge about the behaviour of He during irradiation and deformation in Al, especially near the surface, is therefore important.Using the TEM we have studied Al disks of 3 mm diameter and 0.2 mm thickness, which were perforated at the centre by double jet polishing. These disks were bombarded at∽200°C to various doses with α-particles, impinging at any angle and energy up to 1.5 MeV at both surfaces. The details of the irradiations are described in Ref.1. Subsequent observation indicated that in such specimens uniformly distributed He-bubbles are formed near the surface in a layer several μm thick (Fig.1).After bombardment the disks were deformed at 20°C during observation by means of a tensile device in a Philips EM 300 microscope.


1986 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 1377-1428 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Abdou ◽  
E. Bertolini ◽  
R. Hancox ◽  
W.J. Hogan ◽  
A.I. Kostenko ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Okazaki

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 016004
Author(s):  
Y. Hirano ◽  
J. Sekiguchi ◽  
T. Matsumoto ◽  
T. Asai ◽  
Y. Nogi ◽  
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