Status and Prospects of Advanced Fissile Fuel Breeders to be Presented at Third U. S. / U. S. S. R. Symposium on Fusion-Fission Hybrids Princeton, New Jersey January 22-26, 1979

摘要

Fusion-fission hybrid systems, fast breeder systems, and accelerator breeder systems were compared on a common basis using a simple economic model. Electricity prices based on system capital costs only were computed, and were plotted as functions of five key breeder system parameters. Nominally, hybrid system electricity costs were about twenty-five per cent lower than fast breeder system electricity costs, and fast breeder system electricity costs were about forty per cent lower than accel¬erator breeder system electricity costs. In addition, hybrid system electricity costs were very insensitive to key parameter variations on the average, fast breeder system electricity costs were moderately sensitive to key parameter variations on the average, and accelerator breeder system electricity costs were the most sensitive to key parameter variations on the average.