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Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2016 Lithium titanate with excess lithium (Li2+xTiO3+y) is one of the most promising candidates among advanced tritium breeders for demonstration power plant reactors because of its good tritium release characteristics.
Tsuyoshi Hoshino
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Monte Carlo analysis of LWR spent fuel transmutation in a fusion-fission hybrid reactor system
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2018 The aim of this paper is to determine neutronic performances of the light water reactor (LWR) spent fuel mixed with fertile thorium fuel in a FFHR.
Sümer Şahi̇n +2 more
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TRITIUM IN NUCLEAR FUSION SYSTEMS
, 2020 Tritium, the radioactive isotope of hydrogen, is of main interest in the research and development of fusion technology. In order to establish fusion as an energy source, tritium safety and availability must be achieved.
Alberghi, Ciro
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Nuclear FusionTritium production in a fusion reactor is essential for a deuterium-tritium burning plasma source, and designing a lithium-containing breeder blanket is crucial for a closed fuel cycle in an electricity-to-grid power plant.
Adam J. Barker +2 more
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He huaxue yu fangshe huaxueThe development of Tokamak fusion reactors encompasses hybrid and pure fusion reactor designs. In the study of tritium self-sustainability, the average retention time method is predominantly employed for Tokamak fusion reactors, with less emphasis on ...
WANG Jun, ZHANG Long, LI Ru-yan
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Nuclear Materials and EnergyDuring the EU-DEMO conceptualization, eutectic Pb-Li was considered as the prime candidate liquid breeding material. Nonetheless, the conversion of lithium into tritium through the breeding reaction will result in a decrease in the lithium concentration ...
Marc Nel-lo +4 more
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Liquid surfaces for fusion plasma facing components—A critical review. Part I: Physics and PSI
Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2016 This review of the potential of robust plasma facing components (PFCs) with liquid surfaces for applications in future D/T fusion device summarizes the critical issues for liquid surfaces and research being done worldwide in confinement facilities, and ...
R.E. Nygren, F.L. Tabarés
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Investigation of tritium and 233U breeding in a fission-fusion hybrid reactor fuelling with ThO2 [PDF]
, 2007 *Yıldız, Kadir ( Aksaray, Yazar ) *Şahin, Necmettin ( Aksaray, Yazar )In the world, thorium reserves are three times more than natural Uranium reserves. It is planned in the near future that nuclear reactors will use thorium as a fuel. Thorium is not a
Şahin, Hacı Mehmet +4 more
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Nuclear Materials and EnergyA novel Breeding Blanket (BB) concept, the Water-cooled Lead and Ceramic Breeder (WLCB) BB, has been developed under the EUROfusion Programme to address key challenges identified during the Pre-Conceptwual Design (PCD) phase for the driver BB concepts ...
Iole Palermo +6 more
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Nuclear Materials and EnergyPacking density of the tritium breeder pebble beds are closely related to the effective density of the lithium atom in the breeding cavities. And the higher the density of lithium atoms the higher the tritium breeding ratio.
Baoping Gong +7 more
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