Westinghouse ICF power plant study

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

OSTI ID:6752207

Sucov, E. W.

In this study, two different electric power plants for the production of about 1000 MWe which were based on a CO/sub 2/ laser driver and on a heavy ion driver have been developed and analyzed. The purposes of this study were: (1) to examine in a self consistent way the technological and institutional problems that need to be confronted and solved in order to produce commercially competitive electricity in the 2020 time frame from an inertial fusion reactor, and (2) to compare, on a common basis, the consequences of using two different drivers to initiate the DT fuel pellet explosions. Analytic descriptions of size/performance/cost relationships for each of the subsystems comprising the power plant have been combined into an overall computer code which models the entire plant. This overall model has been used to conduct trade studies which examine the consequences of varying critical design values around the reference point.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (USA). Fusion Power Systems Dept
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC08-79DP40086
• OSTI ID: 6752207
• Report Number(s): WFPS-TME-80-014; CONF-801011-77; TRN: 81-001639
• Resource Relation: Conference: 4. ANS topical meeting on the technology of controlled nuclear fusion, King of Prussia, PA, USA, 14 Oct 1980
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
I-BEAM TYPE REACTORS
DESIGN
LASER FUSION REACTORS
COST
DEUTERIUM TRITIDES
SIZE
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
THERMONUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
DEUTERIUM COMPOUNDS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
LABELLED COMPOUNDS
POWER PLANTS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
TRITIUM COMPOUNDS
700208* - Fusion Power Plant Technology- Inertial Confinement Technology