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The gas-cooled Li/sub 2/O moderator/breeder canister blanket for fusion-synfuels

Conference · · Nucl. Technol./Fusion; (United States)
OSTI ID:6247297
A new integrated power and breeding blanket is described. The blanket incorporates features that make it suitable for synthetic fuel production. It is matched to the thermal and electrical requirements of the General Atomic water-splitting process for producing hydrogen. The fusion reaction is the Tandem Mirror Reactor (TMR) using Mirror Advanced Reactor Study (MARS) physics. The canister blanket is a high temperature, pressure balanced, crossflow heat exchanger contained within a low activity, independently cooled, moderate temperature, first wall structural envelope. The canister uses Li/sub 2/O as the moderator/breeder and helium as the coolant. ''In situ'' tritium control, combined with slip stream processing and self-healing permeation barriers, assures a hydrogen product essentially free of tritium. The blanket is particularly adapted to synfuels production but is equally useful for electricity production or co-generation.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., Univ. of California, Livermore, CA 94550
OSTI ID:
6247297
Report Number(s):
CONF-830406-
Conference Information:
Journal Name: Nucl. Technol./Fusion; (United States) Journal Volume: 4:2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English