Contributed paper. Conceptual design of a fusion-fission hybrid reactor for transmutation of high level nuclear waste.
The layout of the nuclear island is driven by compat- ibility requirements of the demounting capability with structural and blanket design considerations. The
This study is a new preliminary conceptual design and economic analysis of an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) power plant performed by.
This paper provides an overview of the conceptual design of the SC-MHR reactor system (RS), including assessments of core performance in the areas of reactor physics and power distributions, temperature/flow distributions, fuel integrity, and fission product release. The reactor core components include the hexagonal fuel elements, hexagonal graphite reflector elements, startup sources, and reactivity control material. The reactor internal components consist of the UCR elements, permanent side reflector (PSR) elements, graphite core support assembly, metallic core support assembly, and the upper plenum shroud (UPS), as shown Fig. 2. CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF THE NGNP REACTOR SYSTEM 4 GENERAL ATOMICS REPORT GA-A27283 support assembly and the metallic core support assembly together comprise the core support structure. Flow enters the core fuel columns through the coolant channels in the metallic UCR elements. In addition to the flow in the coolant channels in the fuel elements, some flow is directed to the control rod channels, and there is some flow in the vertical gaps between the columns in the active core and in the side reflector.
Li, and the FDS Team Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences P.O. Box 1126, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China Phone/Fax: +86 551 5593326; E-mail: ycwu@ipp.ac.cn Abstract: A series of fusion power plants (named FDS series) have been designed and assessed for the examination of the feasibility and the safety, environmental and economical potential of fusion with emphasizing the blanket design optimization on neutronics, thermal-hydraulics, electro-magnetics, material and structural and safety performance analyses in China. FDS-I: a Fusion-Driven Subcritcal System FDS-I, a fusion-fission hybrid reactor, is designated to transmute the long-lived nuclear wastes from fission power plants and to produce fissile nuclear fuel for feeding fission power plants as an intermediate step and early application towards final application of fusion energy on the basis of easily-achieved plasma physics and engineering technology, where the RAFM (Reduced Activation Ferritic/Martensitic) steel or optionally the austenitic stainless steel-structured He-gas/liquid LiPb dual-cooled high level waste transmutation (DWT) blanket concept is adopted [2-6].
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