Westinghouse ICF power plant design

Conference · Sat Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5559190

Sucov, E W

This study of commercial power plants based on ICF drivers examined the technological problems that need to be confronted and solved in order to produce commercially competitive electricity acceptable to utilities. Two conceptual designs, one based on a CO/sub 2/ laser driven and one on a heavy ion particle beam driver, were developed. Analytic descriptions of the performance and cost relationships for each of the subsystems that comprise the power plant were combined into an overall computer code which modeled the entire plant and permitted trade studies to be conducted. The subsystems of the power plants include driver, pellet fabrication, pellet injection, first wall protection, first wall and structure, heat removal, tritium breeding, neutron shielding, maintenance and repair. The emphasis of the effort was on designing a viable reactor cavity and on solving the problems of interfacing the driver systems with the reactor cavity.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (USA). Fusion Power Systems Dept.
• DOE Contract Number: AC08-79DP40086
• OSTI ID: 5559190
• Report Number(s): WFPS-TME-81-016; CONF-811046-14; ON: DE82004715
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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700208* -- Fusion Power Plant Technology-- Inertial Confinement Technology
BEAMS
CHARGED PARTICLES
COST
DESIGN
FIRST WALL
FUEL PELLETS
HEAVY IONS
I-BEAM TYPE REACTORS
INJECTION
INTAKE
ION BEAMS
IONS
LASER FUSION REACTORS
MAINTENANCE
PELLETS
PERFORMANCE
SHIELDING
THERMONUCLEAR REACTOR WALLS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS