Tritium: Fuel of Fusion Reactors

This book focuses on tritium as a fuel for fusion reactors and a next-generation energy source. Following an introduction of tritium as a hydrogen radioisotope, important issues involved in establishing safe and economical tritium fuel cycles including breeding for a fusion reactor are summarized; these include the handling of large amounts of tritium: confinement, leakage, contamination, permeation, regulation and tritium accountancy, and impacts on surrounding areas. Targeting and encouraging the students and technicians who will design and operate fusion reactors in the near future, this book offers a valuable resource on tritium science and technology.

List of contents

Introduction of a nuclear fusion reactor.- Characteristics of tritium.- Fuel flow and balance in a DT fusion reactor.- Burning plasma.- Behavior of fuels in reactor.- Tritium fueling system.- Tritium measurement I.- Tritium measurement II.- Permeation and Permeation Barrier.- Contamination and decontamination.- Isotope separation system (ISS).- Evaluation method of tritium breeding ratio using neutron transport equation.- Recovery of Tritium Bred in Blanket.- Safety confinement system.- Behavior of tritium released to the environment.

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Summary

This book focuses on tritium as a fuel for fusion reactors and a next-generation energy source. Following an introduction of tritium as a hydrogen radioisotope, important issues involved in establishing safe and economical tritium fuel cycles including breeding for a fusion reactor are summarized; these include the handling of large amounts of tritium: confinement, leakage, contamination, permeation, regulation and tritium accountancy, and impacts on surrounding areas. Targeting and encouraging the students and technicians who will design and operate fusion reactors in the near future, this book offers a valuable resource on tritium science and technology.

Product details

• Assisted by: Tetsu Tanabe (Editor), Tetsuo Tanabe (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9784431567929
• ISBN: 978-4-431-56792-9
• No. of pages: 365
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 22 mm x 260 mm
• Weight: 581 g
• Illustrations: XII, 365 p. 167 illus., 101 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; B, ENERGY, energy systems, Energy Grids and Networks, Environmental Management, Energy technology & engineering, quality control, Industrial and Production Engineering, reliability, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear power & engineering, Environmental management,, Industrial safety, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Reliability engineering