Gas-cooled, Li/sub 2/O moderator/breeder canister blanket for fusion-synfuels
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, cross-flow 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., CA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 6399020
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-88236; CONF-830406-62; ON: DE83012661
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. topical meeting on technology of fusion energy, Knoxville, TN, USA, 26 Apr 1983; Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Related Subjects
BREEDING BLANKETS
DESIGN
MARS REACTOR
TMR REACTORS
COOLANTS
DIFFUSION
HEAT EXCHANGERS
HELIUM
LITHIUM OXIDES
PERMEABILITY
SYNTHETIC FUELS
TRITIUM
ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
CHALCOGENIDES
ELEMENTS
FLUIDS
FUELS
GASES
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
LITHIUM COMPOUNDS
MAGNETIC MIRROR TYPE REACTORS
NONMETALS
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
RADIOISOTOPES
RARE GASES
REACTOR COMPONENTS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
700201* - Fusion Power Plant Technology- Blanket Engineering