Qualitative Reliability Issues for Solid and Liquid Wall Fusion Designs

Cadwallader, L C

doi:10.2172/776390

Title: Qualitative Reliability Issues for Solid and Liquid Wall Fusion Designs

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This report is an initial effort to identify issues affecting reliability and availability of solid and liquid wall designs for magnetic fusion power plant designs. A qualitative approach has been used to identify the possible failure modes of major system components and their effects on the systems. A general set of design attributes known to affect the service reliability has been examined for the overview solid and liquid wall designs, and some specific features of good first wall design have been discussed and applied to these designs as well. The two generalized designs compare well in regard to these design attributes. The strengths and weaknesses of each design approach are seen in the comparison of specific features.

Authors:: Cadwallader, L C

Publication Date:: Wed Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2001

Research Org.:: Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)

OSTI Identifier:: 776390

Report Number(s):: INEEL/EXT-2000-01367
TRN: US0101479

DOE Contract Number:: AC07-99ID13727

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Resource Relation:: Other Information: PBD: 31 Jan 2001

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; AVAILABILITY; DESIGN; FIRST WALL; THERMONUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RELIABILITY; MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT; SOLID AND LIQUID WALL DESIGN; MAGNETIC FUSION POWER PLANT DESIGNS; MAGNETIC FUSION; SOLID WALL ARMOR; FUSION PLANT; LIQUID SELF-RENEWING WALLS

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