A Comparison of Li and 83Pb-17Li Primary Coolant Designs for the Pulse*Star ICF Reactor

The Pulse*Star Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor

“…(These designs are compared in a detailed paper later in this meeting.) 2 Two major issues remain for the LiPb balance of plant: 1) the control of 2ln Po created in neutron reactions with lead, and 2) the containment of tritium. The first issue is treated in detail in another paper at this meeting^ and will not be discussed further here.…”

“…Hoop Loads on the_ Me_sh..First : "Wali Due to X-Ray Ablation. The tensile hoop stress in a solid (not-mesh) cylindrical wall is a = (PT/4) (Y/p) 1 ' 2 (2) when the loading time (i) is less than the wall period (~ 5 ms). For steel, the modulus (Y) is ~ 200 GPa, and the density (p) is 7860 kg/m 3 .…”