Safety and environmental aspects of deuterium--tritium fusion power plants: work shop summary

Conference · Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1978

OSTI ID:6617373

In September of 1977 a workshop was held on the safety and environmental aspects of fusion power plants to consider potential safety and environmental problems of fusion power plants and to reveal solutions or methods of solving those problems. The objective was to promote incorporation of safety and environmental protection into reactor design, thereby reducing the expense and delay of backfitting safety systems after reactor designs are complete. A dialogue was established between fusion reactor designers and safety and environmental researchers. Four topics, each with several subdivisions, were selected for discussion: radiation exposure, accidents, environmental effects, and plant safety. For each topic, discussion focused on the significance of the problem, and adequacy of current technology to solve the problem, design solutions available and research needed to solve the problem.

• Research Organization: Department of Energy, Washington, DC (USA). Office of Fusion Energy; Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6617373
• Report Number(s): CONF-770997-; TRN: 78-020244
• Resource Relation: Conference: Workshop on safety and environmental aspects of fusion power plants, Seattle, WA, USA, 14 Sep 1977
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
ACCIDENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
RADIATION HAZARDS
SAFETY
AIR
CORROSION
DEUTERIUM
LEAKS
LITHIUM
MAGNET COILS
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RADIOACTIVITY
TRITIUM
ALKALI METALS
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
ELECTRIC COILS
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELEMENTS
EQUIPMENT
FLUIDS
GASES
HAZARDS
HEALTH HAZARDS
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
METALS
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOISOTOPES
STABLE ISOTOPES
WASTES
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
700206* - Fusion Power Plant Technology- Environmental Aspects