Performance of high-temperature gas-cooled reactor as a tritium production device for fusion reactors

► The performance of a gas-cooled reactor as a tritium production device was studied. ► Gas-cooled reactors with 3 GWt output can produce 5–8 kg of tritium in a year. ► Use of Li 2O compound is efficient compared with Li 4SiO 4 or Li 2TiO 3 one. ► Amount of tritium produced can be increased by reduc...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nuclear engineering and design 2012-02, Vol.243, p.95-101
Hauptverfasser: Matsuura, H., Kouchi, S., Nakaya, H., Yasumoto, T., Nakao, Y., Shimakawa, S., Goto, M., Nakagawa, S., Nishikawa, M.
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Zusammenfassung:► The performance of a gas-cooled reactor as a tritium production device was studied. ► Gas-cooled reactors with 3 GWt output can produce 5–8 kg of tritium in a year. ► Use of Li 2O compound is efficient compared with Li 4SiO 4 or Li 2TiO 3 one. ► Amount of tritium produced can be increased by reducing the enrichment of 235U. The performance of a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor as a tritium production device is examined. A gas turbine high-temperature reactor of 300 MWe nominal capacity (GTHTR300) is assumed as the calculation target of a typical gas-cooled reactor, and using the continuous-energy Monte Carlo transport code MVP-BURN, burn-up simulations for the 3-dimensional entire-core region of GTHTR300 were carried out considering its unique double heterogeneity structure. It is shown that gas-cooled reactors with thermal output power of 3 GW in all can produce 5–8 kg of tritium in a year.
ISSN:0029-5493
1872-759X
DOI:10.1016/j.nucengdes.2011.12.008