Tritium: Fuel of Fusion Reactors

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tanabe, Tetsuo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Energy.; Energy systems.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Nuclear engineering.; Environmental management.; Energy Systems.; Nuclear Engineering.; Physics of Energy Technology.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Environmental Management.

This book focuses on tritium as a fuel for fusion reactors and a next-generation energy source. Following an introduction of tritium as a hydrogen radioisotope, important issues involved in establishing safe and economical tritium fuel cycles including breeding for a fusion reactor are summarized; t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction of a nuclear fusion reactor
• Characteristics of tritium
• Fuel flow and balance in a DT fusion reactor
• Burning plasma
• Behavior of fuels in reactor
• Tritium fueling system
• Tritium measurement I
• Tritium measurement II
• Permeation and Permeation Barrier
• Contamination and decontamination
• Isotope separation system (ISS)
• Evaluation method of tritium breeding ratio using neutron transport equation
• Recovery of Tritium Bred in Blanket
• Safety confinement system
• Behavior of tritium released to the environment.