Evaluation of tritium production rate in a gas-cooled reactor with continuous tritium recovery system for fusion reactors

Hideaki Matsuura; Hiroyuki Nakaya; Yasuyuki Nakao; Satoshi Shimakawa; Minoru Goto; Shigeaki Nakagawa; Masabumi Nishikawa

doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2013.05.022

Evaluation of tritium production rate in a gas-cooled reactor with continuous tritium recovery system for fusion reactors

Hideaki Matsuura, Hiroyuki Nakaya, Yasuyuki Nakao, Satoshi Shimakawa, Minoru Goto, Shigeaki Nakagawa, Masabumi Nishikawa

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The performance of a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor as a tritium production with continuous tritium recovery system is examined. A gas turbine high-temperature reactor of 300-MWe (600 MW) nominal capacity (GTHTR300) is assumed as the calculation target, and using the continuous-energy Monte Carlo transport code MVP-BURN, burn-up simulations for the three-dimensional entire-core region of the GTHTR300 were performed. A Li loading pattern for the continuous tritium recovery system in the gas-cooled reactor is presented. It is shown that module gas-cooled reactors with a total thermal output power of 3 GW in all can produce ∼6 kg of tritium maximum in a year.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2219-2222
Number of pages	4
Journal	Fusion Engineering and Design
Volume	88
Issue number	9-10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2013.05.022
Publication status	Published - Oct 1 2013

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Civil and Structural Engineering
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Materials Science(all)
Mechanical Engineering

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Matsuura, H., Nakaya, H., Nakao, Y., Shimakawa, S., Goto, M., Nakagawa, S., & Nishikawa, M. (2013). Evaluation of tritium production rate in a gas-cooled reactor with continuous tritium recovery system for fusion reactors. Fusion Engineering and Design, 88(9-10), 2219-2222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2013.05.022

Evaluation of tritium production rate in a gas-cooled reactor with continuous tritium recovery system for fusion reactors. / Matsuura, Hideaki; Nakaya, Hiroyuki; Nakao, Yasuyuki; Shimakawa, Satoshi; Goto, Minoru; Nakagawa, Shigeaki; Nishikawa, Masabumi.

In: Fusion Engineering and Design, Vol. 88, No. 9-10, 01.10.2013, p. 2219-2222.

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