TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation of tritium production rate in a gas-cooled reactor with continuous tritium recovery system for fusion reactors
AU - Matsuura, Hideaki
AU - Nakaya, Hiroyuki
AU - Nakao, Yasuyuki
AU - Shimakawa, Satoshi
AU - Goto, Minoru
AU - Nakagawa, Shigeaki
AU - Nishikawa, Masabumi
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge many researchers in the Japanese fusion community for fruitful discussions concerning the tritium supply problem in future fusion devices. This research was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research, 23656574 and 25630421.
PY - 2013/10
Y1 - 2013/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2013.05.022
DO - 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2013.05.022
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84884978866
VL - 88
SP - 2219
EP - 2222
JO - Fusion Engineering and Design
JF - Fusion Engineering and Design
SN - 0920-3796
IS - 9-10
ER -