Flibe Fusion Blankets and Flibe Fluoride-Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactors: Opportunities for Synergistic Development Strategies

摘要

ARC and the FHR use clean FLiBe as a coolant. This results in overlap in technology needs for both systems and creates incentives for cooperative programs between fission and fusion to accelerate the development of these two technologies. FLiBe blankets are being considered for other fusion machines and flibe is proposed for several types of MSRs with fuel dissolved in the salt. In all of these machines there is a strong coupling of salt properties, heat transfer, tritium control and materials choices. The fission and fusion programs are not in direct competition but rather strategic partners in two advanced energy systems. This is somewhat similar to aircraft jet engines and combined-cycle natural gas turbines-different systems and markets but overlapping core technologies.