Gas-cooled blanket for the Tandem Mirror Hybrid Reactor

Conference · Wed Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:6801966

Schultz, K. R.; Wong, C. P.C.; Cheng, E. T.; Creedon, R. L.

A helium-cooled blanket design for the LLNL Tandem Mirror Hybrid Reactor has been developed that uses thorium metal as the fertile material, with an average thermal power of approx. 4000 MW and a production of 2.7 metric tons of /sup 233/U per year. It is intended to interface with a thorium//sup 233/U fuel cycle economy that is expected to be available in the early part of the 21st century. The design uses fairly conventional gas-cooled reactor technology to minimize the need for extensive development programs. The blanket materials include metallic thorium fuel in HT-9 ferritic steel-clad plates, an Inconel-718 first wall and a Li/sub 2/O tritium breeding zone. By using a separate tritium purge flow system, tritium concerns in the fission zone and primary loop are minimized. The cylindrical reactor is separated into 16 replaceable large modules connected by pressure-operated omega joint vacuum seals.

• Research Organization: General Atomic Co., San Diego, CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AT03-76ET51011
• OSTI ID: 6801966
• Report Number(s): GA-A-16116; CONF-801011-29
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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