Fusion Reactor Design IV (Report on the 4th IAEA Technical Committee Meeting and Workshop, Yalta, USSR, 26 May – 6 June 1986)

Abstract

The International Atomic Energy Agency convened, in the framework of its Fusion Technology and Engineering Programme, the 4th Technical Committee and Workshop on Fusion Reactor Design and Technology at Yalta, USSR, from 26 May – 6 June 1986. This report contains all summaries of sessions that were organized during the workshop. The papers presented at the meeting are being published by the Agency in its Proceedings Series.

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“…The former is strongly dependent on the tritium burn fraction, f b , the tritium fuelling efficiency, η f , and the tritium processing time, t p . For a fusion device generating 3 GW fusion power the start-up inventory can vary from 10 kg to over 30 kg [2]. Decreasing the processing time and increasing the burn-up fraction and fuelling efficiency create margin for the largely unknown tritium breeding ratio (TBR).…”

The status of fusion research

“…A wide range o f r e a c t o r designs has been c a r r i e d o u t , which i n d i c a t e t h a t e l e c t r i c i t y g e n e r a t i n g r e a c t o r s based on t h e D-T f u s i o n r e a c t i o n can be b u i l t and o p e r a t e d (Abdou 1986). Such r e a c t o r s depend on t h e plasma thermal i n s u l a t i o n r e a c h i n g t h e r e q u i r e d v a l u e s f o r energy p r o d u c t i o n , and on a c h i e v i n g s i m u l t a n e o u s l y adequate values o f p. I n each case t h e t o r o i d a l plasma i s surrounded b y a t o r o i d a l s h e l l about 1 m t h i c k t o absorb t h e 14 MeV n e u t r o n s i n l i t h i u m f o r b r e e d i n g t r i t i u m and t o e x t r a c t t h e enerqy i n t h e form o f h i g h -t e m p e r a t u r e h e a t i n a gaseous o r l i q u i d h e a t t r a n s f e r f l u i d .…”