(D,T) Driven thorium hybrid blankets

Conference · Thu Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1983 · Alternative Energy Sources; (United States)

OSTI ID:6853512

Al-Kusayer, T A; Khan, S; Sahin, S

Recently, a project has started, with the aim to establish the neutronic performance and the basic design of an experimental fusionfission (hybrid) reactor facility, called AYMAN, in cylinderical geometry. The fusion reactor will have to be simulated by a (D,T) neutron generator. Fissile and fertile fuel will have to surround the neutron generator as a cylinderical blanket to simulate the boundary conditions of the hybrid blanket in a proper way. This geometry is consistent with Tandem Mirror Hybrid Blanket design and with most of the ICF blanket designs. A similar experimental installation will become operational around 1984 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland known under the project LOTUS. Due to the limited dimensions of the experimental cavity of the LOTUS-hybrid reactor, the LOTUS blankets have to be designed in plane geometry. Also, the bulky form of the Haefely neutron generator of the LOTUS facility obliges one to design a blanket in the plane geometry. This results in a vacuum left boundary conditions for the LOTUS blanket. The importance of a reflecting left boundary condition on the overall neutronic performance of a hybrid blanket has been analyzed in previous work in detail.

• Research Organization: King Saud Univ., Riyadh
• OSTI ID: 6853512
• Report Number(s): CONF-831205-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Alternative Energy Sources; (United States)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
700201* -- Fusion Power Plant Technology-- Blanket Engineering
A CODES
ACTINIDES
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
BREEDING BLANKETS
COMPUTER CALCULATIONS
COMPUTER CODES
CONFIGURATION
CYLINDRICAL CONFIGURATION
DESIGN
ELEMENTS
ENERGY SOURCES
FISSILE MATERIALS
FISSIONABLE MATERIALS
FUELS
GEOMETRY
HYBRID REACTORS
MATERIALS
MATHEMATICS
METALS
NEUTRON SPECTRA
NUCLEAR FUELS
REACTOR COMPONENTS
REACTOR MATERIALS
SPECTRA
THORIUM