Size limitations for microwave cavity to simulate heating of blanket material in fusion reactor

Technical Report · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6918881· OSTI ID:6918881

Wolf, D

The power profile in the blanket material of a nuclear fusion reactor can be simulated by using microwaves at 200 MHz. Using these microwaves, ceramic breeder materials can be thermally tested to determine their acceptability as blanket materials without entering a nuclear fusion environment. A resonating cavity design is employed which can achieve uniform cross sectional heating in the plane transverse to the neutron flux. As the sample size increases in height and width, higher order modes, above the dominant mode, are propagated and destroy the approximation to the heating produced in a fusion reactor. The limits at which these modes develop are determined in the paper.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6918881
• Report Number(s): ANL/FPP/TM-209; ON: DE87008076
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products. Original copy available until stock is exhausted
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
BREEDING BLANKETS
HEATING
SIMULATION
CAVITY RESONATORS
CERAMICS
MICROWAVE RADIATION
SIZE
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT
RADIATIONS
REACTOR COMPONENTS
RESONATORS
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