Development and Analysis of Fusion Breeder Blanket Neutronics. Progress Report, November 1, 1983-October 31, 1984

摘要

The following activities are briefly described: (a) the IBM versions of the computer codes FORSS, PUFF-II, ONETRAN, TWOTRAN-II, and DOT4.3 were obtained from the Radiation Shielding Information Center (RSIC) and have been implemented on the UCLA local computer, the IBM 3033; (b) mathematical and computational models to describe the time-dependent transport and inventory of tritium in individual components of a fusion reactor system have been developed; (c) extensive cross-section sensitivity and uncertainty analysis was carried out to evaluate an estimate for the uncertainty associated with the TBR (both from exp 6 Li and exp 7 Li, individually) in four of the leading blanket concepts (the Li sub 2 O/HT-9 helium-cooled blanket, the 17Li-83Pb/PCA self-cooled blanket, the LiAlO sub 2 /He/FS/Be blanket, and the flibe/He/FS/Be blanket); (d) as far as the TBR obtain able in various blanket concepts is concerned, a comparative analysis was carried out to estimate the change in TBR in a particular blanket module when placed in a tokamak machine (R (first wall) approx. 2 m) as opposed to adopting the same blanket in a mirror machine (R (first wall) approx. 50 cm) with the same wall loading. (ERA citation 09:042438)