Published December 1986
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Journal article
Nuclear design and analysis of a magnetic fusion production reactor
Description
Tandem-mirror- and tokamak-based magnetic fusion production reactors are predicted to have tritium breeding ratios of 1.67 and 1.49. respectively. The latter value replaces one (1.56) that is used elsewhere in the sequence of papers in this issue. Blanket energy multiplication for both is predicted to be about 1.3. With the tandem mirror operating in the plutonium production mode, the net plutonium-plus-tritium breeding ratio is 1.74. Blanket energy multiplication for the plutonium mode is predicted to be 2.4 at a plutonium-uranium ratio of 0.7% and a uranium volume fraction of 3%
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- J. Fusion Energy
- Journal Volume
- 5
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Series
- J. Fusion Energy.
- Journal Page Range
- 317-326
- ISSN
- 0164-0313
- CODEN
- JFEND
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 18077844
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALUMINIUM; BERYLLIUM; BREEDING BLANKETS; BREEDING RATIO; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPE RATIO; LITHIUM 6 TARGET; MULTIPLICATION FACTORS; NEPTUNIUM 237 TARGET; NEUTRON FLUX; NEUTRON REACTIONS; NEUTRON SPECTRA; OXYGEN; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; PLUTONIUM PRODUCTION REACTORS; PLUTONIUM 236; PLUTONIUM 238; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 239 TARGET; PLUTONIUM 240; PLUTONIUM 240 TARGET; PLUTONIUM 241; POWER DENSITY; SPECIFICATIONS; T CODES; THERMONUCLEAR REACTOR MATERIAL; THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS; TMR REACTORS; TOKAMAK DEVICES; TRITIUM; TRITIUM PRODUCTION REACTORS; URANIUM 238 TARGET
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALKALINE EARTH METALS; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BARYON REACTIONS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES; COMPUTER CODES; CONVERSION RATIO; ELEMENTS; EVALUATION; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; HADRON REACTIONS; HEAVY NUCLEI; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; IRRADIATION REACTORS; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; MATERIALS; METALS; NONMETALS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEI; NUCLEON REACTIONS; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES; PRODUCTION REACTORS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATION FLUX; RADIOISOTOPES; REACTORS; SPECTRA; SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTO; TARGETS; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES