The impact of servicing requirements on tokamak fusion reactor design
Abstract
Regardless of the plasma confinement scheme, D-T fusion reactors must be designed in such a way that the structure of the first wall may be repaired. The deterioration of the wall primarily results from neutron irradiation and transmutation in the materials under conditions of stresses and high temperatures and surface corrosion and erosion. Servicing procedures are outlined for the Saturn 5-GW (t) laser fusion reactor, the UWMAK I and II designs, and the Culham MK II (CCTRII) design.
- Publication:
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Tokamak Reactors for Breakeven: A Critical Study of the Near-Term Fusion Reactor Program
- Pub Date:
- 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978trbc.book..559M
- Keywords:
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- Fusion Reactors;
- Maintenance;
- Plasma Control;
- Reactor Design;
- Remote Handling;
- Tokamak Devices;
- Corrosion Resistance;
- Deuterium Plasma;
- Energy Technology;
- Neutron Irradiation;
- Operational Problems;
- Services;
- Thermal Stresses;
- Transmutation;
- Engineering (General)