Nuclear engineering and design/fusion : an international journal devoted to the thermal, mechanical, materials, structural, and design problems of fusion energy最新文献
L. Pong, M.L. Corradini, R.R. Peterson, G.A. Moses
{"title":"Liquid metal condensation in the cavity of the HIBALL heavy ion fusion reactor","authors":"L. Pong, M.L. Corradini, R.R. Peterson, G.A. Moses","doi":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90033-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90033-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the HIBALL heavy ion beam fusion reactor design, the INPORT concept is used to protect the first surface of the reactor from damage by the high energy X-rays, ion debris and fast neutrons from the exploding target. Liquid Li<sub>17</sub>Pb<sub>83</sub> flows through porous SiC tubes and wets outside of the tubes with a layer of Li<sub>17</sub>Pb<sub>83</sub>. This Li<sub>17</sub>Pb<sub>83</sub> film is evaporated on each shot by the target X-rays and ion debris. The mechanisms that control the vapor pressure of the chamber are: gas radiation, Li<sub>17</sub>Pb<sub>83</sub> evaporation from the INPORT tubes, and gas condensation back onto the INPORT tubes. From the beam stripping cross section for Bi<sup>2+</sup> ions on Pb the gas pressure (evaluated at 0°C) inside the chamber must be at or below 10<sup>−4</sup> torr in order for the ion beam to reach the target and ignite it. The repetition rate is therefore determined by the time required to reestablish this pressure after a shot. Calculations are presented that indicate that this time is short enough to allow a 5 Hz repetition rate for a wide range of parameters.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":82205,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear engineering and design/fusion : an international journal devoted to the thermal, mechanical, materials, structural, and design problems of fusion energy","volume":"3 1","pages":"Pages 47-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0167-899X(85)90033-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77206788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Author index to volume 2","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90029-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-899X(85)90029-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82205,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear engineering and design/fusion : an international journal devoted to the thermal, mechanical, materials, structural, and design problems of fusion energy","volume":"2 3","pages":"Pages 417-418"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0167-899X(85)90029-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137344716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TASKA-M — a low cost technology test tandem mirror","authors":"G. Emmert","doi":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90015-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-899X(85)90015-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82205,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear engineering and design/fusion : an international journal devoted to the thermal, mechanical, materials, structural, and design problems of fusion energy","volume":"38 1","pages":"239-256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84318938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the economics of fissile breeding alternatives","authors":"Stefan Taczanowski","doi":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90038-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90038-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A simple comparative study of fissile breeding economics of fusion-fission hybrids, spallators, and also of fast breeder reactors, has been carried out. In spite of the uncertainty of present projections into the future and of discrepancies in available data, even with quite conservative assumptions it is shown that hybrids and spallators can become economic at a realistic uranium price increase, successfully competing against fast breeders.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":82205,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear engineering and design/fusion : an international journal devoted to the thermal, mechanical, materials, structural, and design problems of fusion energy","volume":"3 1","pages":"Pages 97-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0167-899X(85)90038-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80534600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methods for forecasting performance limits of fusion reactor structural materials","authors":"G.E. Lucas, G.R. Odette","doi":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90009-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90009-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>For the purposes of both developing appropriate alloys for fusion reactors and ultimately designing and building such devices, it is necessary to determine the mechanical response to high energy neutron irradiation of candidate structural materials. The current and near-term facilities for providing the requisite testing environment are either limited by dissimilarity to fusion reactor environments (i.e., fission reactors), or irradiation volume, or both. This necessitates the development of both a testing technology commensurate with the available facilities — i.e., primarily small specimen technology — and a correlation methodology which recognizes the limitations of the anticipated data base and maximizes the use of that data. In this paper we (1) describe a general philosophy for such correlation methodologies, (2) provide a brief overview of small specimen test techniques and data characteristics, and (3) demonstrate with several examples how correlations can be developed and applied.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":82205,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear engineering and design/fusion : an international journal devoted to the thermal, mechanical, materials, structural, and design problems of fusion energy","volume":"2 1","pages":"Pages 145-173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0167-899X(85)90009-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88869883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comparison of pulsed and steady-state tokamak reactor burn cycles. Part II: Magnet fatigue, power supplies, and cost analysis","authors":"D.A. Ehst, J.N. Brooks, K. Evans Jr., S. Kim","doi":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90021-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90021-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Pulsed operation of a tokamak reactor imposes cost penalties due to such problems as mechanical fatigue and the need to periodically transfer large amounts of energy to various reactor components. This study focuses on lifetime limitations and capital costs of reactor subsystems in an attempt to quantify sensitivity to pulsed operation. Major problem areas include: fatigue in pulsed poloidal field coils; out-of-plane bending fatigue in toroidal field coils; electric power supply costs; and noninductive current driver costs. A capital cost comparison is made for tokamak reactors operating under the four distinct operating cycles which have been proposed. Since high availability and a low cost of energy will be mandatory for a commercial fusion reactor, we can characterize improvements in physics and technology which will help achieve these goals for different burn cycles. A key conclusion is that steady-state operation is likely to result in the least expensive tokamak reactor (perhaps 20% cheaper than the best pulsed reactor), provided noninductive current drive efficiency can be increased roughly four-fold over present-day experimental results.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":82205,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear engineering and design/fusion : an international journal devoted to the thermal, mechanical, materials, structural, and design problems of fusion energy","volume":"2 3","pages":"Pages 319-336"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0167-899X(85)90021-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72435851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reduction of the cyclic stress fatigue due to the over-turning force on the toroidal field coils by quasi-steady operation in a tokamak fusion reactor","authors":"Satoshi Nishio, Masayoshi Sugihara","doi":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90034-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90034-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It is shown that the cyclic stress fatigue due to the over-turning force on the toroidal field coils in a tokamak fusion reactor can be greatly reduced by appropriately changing the plasma current in the recharging phase of the quasi-steady operation scenario with the use of lower hybrid wave current drive. This substantial reduction is made possible, if the characteristics of required variation of the equilbrium magnetic field for the dee-shaped divertor plasma is properly taken into account in adjusting the plasma current, in which the necessary equilibrium field becomes larger in low beta phase than in high beta phase for the same plasma current.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":82205,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear engineering and design/fusion : an international journal devoted to the thermal, mechanical, materials, structural, and design problems of fusion energy","volume":"3 1","pages":"Pages 59-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0167-899X(85)90034-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89250318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Herbert Schroeder, Wilto Kesternich, Hans Ullmaier
{"title":"Helium effects on the creep and fatigue resistance of austenitic stainless steels at high temperatures","authors":"Herbert Schroeder, Wilto Kesternich, Hans Ullmaier","doi":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90006-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90006-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The effects of helium on the high temperature mechanical properties of austenitic stainless steel, also known as high temperature helium embrittlement, are reviewed. Special emphasis is given to such experimental data which simulate a fusion reactor environment best, i.e., to creep and low frequency fatigue experiments at high helium levels (≥ 100 appm He). Correlations between mechanical properties data and microstructural data are presented and compared to recently developed models for helium embrittlement. The presented data are critically assessed in the light of fusion reactor materials needs and some suggestions for future work are made.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":82205,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear engineering and design/fusion : an international journal devoted to the thermal, mechanical, materials, structural, and design problems of fusion energy","volume":"2 1","pages":"Pages 65-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0167-899X(85)90006-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74965841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comparison of the key features of tandem mirror technology test facilities","authors":"P. Komarek, G. Kulcinski","doi":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90012-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-899X(85)90012-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82205,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear engineering and design/fusion : an international journal devoted to the thermal, mechanical, materials, structural, and design problems of fusion energy","volume":"1 1","pages":"193-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73325996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimization of the plasma startup scenario for the RF current drive tokamak by calculus of variations","authors":"Takashi Okazaki , Masayoshi Sugihara, Satoshi Nishio, Noboru Fujisawa","doi":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90036-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0167-899X(85)90036-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An analytic method is proposed to determine the startup scenario with the RF current drive. The scenario is obtained from the viewpoint of minimizing the RF injection energy by means of the calculus of variations. It is found that the scenario of RF current startup has distinct differences from that of inductive startup. For example, this analysis indicates that the poloidal beta is kept at the maximum value, the temperature is increased in an early startup phase to decrease the current drive power and the plasma current is ramped up slowly at high temperatures to suppress the return current induced. The numerical calculations reveal that the startup time and the RF injection energy are sharply decreased by the impurity contamination or the deterioration of the plasma confinement during the startup.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":82205,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear engineering and design/fusion : an international journal devoted to the thermal, mechanical, materials, structural, and design problems of fusion energy","volume":"3 1","pages":"Pages 73-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0167-899X(85)90036-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85632833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}