LIFE Materials: Thermomechanical Effects Volume 5 - Part I
Description
Improved fuel performance is a key issue in the current Laser Inertial-Confinement Fusion-Fission Energy (LIFE) engine design. LIFE is a fusion-fission engine composed of a ∼40-tons fuel blanket surrounding a pulsed fusion neutron source. Fusion neutrons get multiplied and moderated in a Beryllium blanket before penetrating the subcritical fission blanket. The fuel in the blanket is composed of millions of fuel pebbles, and can in principle be burned to over 99% FIMA without refueling or reprocessing. This report contains the following chapters: Chapter A: LIFE Requirements for Materials -- LIFE Fuel; Chapter B: Summary of Existing Knowledge; Chapter C: Identification of Gaps in Knowledge and Vulnerabilities; and Chapter D: Strategy and Future Work.
Availability note (English)
Available from https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/373136.pdf; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/953310-fgk9as/Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- vp.
- Report number
- LLNL-TR--412921
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 41030149
- Subject category
- S11: NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; S42: ENGINEERING;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- BERYLLIUM; CURRENTS; DESIGN; ENERGY; ENGINES; FISSION; FUELS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT; LASERS; MATERIALS; NEUTRON SOURCES; NEUTRONS; PERFORMANCE; REPROCESSING; VOLUME; WORK
- Descriptors DEC
- ALKALINE EARTH METALS; BARYONS; CONFINEMENT; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; FERMIONS; HADRONS; METALS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE SOURCES; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; RADIATION SOURCES; SEPARATION PROCESSES
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- W-7405-ENG-48
- Notes
- doi 10.2172/953310. PDF-FILE: 29; SIZE: 1.5 MBYTES
- Funding organization
- US Department of Energy (United States)