التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
The fuel supply quandary of fusion power reactors. |
| المؤلفون: |
Jassby, Daniel L. |
| المصدر: |
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; Nov2024, Vol. 80 Issue 6, p377-384, 8p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
PILOT plants, TOKAMAKS, DEUTERIUM, SELF-reliant living, NEUTRONS, FUSION reactor blankets, FUSION reactors |
| مستخلص: |
Concern about adequate tritium resources to start up deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion reactors in the near term is misplaced: Proposed demonstration reactors and pilot plants will not realistically be buildable for a great many decades. More disturbing, tritium fuel self-sufficiency of eventual DT reactors may be unattainable, because it is unlikely that tritium-breeding blankets can completely replenish burned-up fuel as well as unburned tritium that is lost in numerous reactor subsystems. The concept of doubling time is unworkable. The only viable fuel solution for sustained operation demands deuterium-based reactors where the tritium is concurrently generated and burned up in the fusioning plasma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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