High Power Laser and Particle Beams, Volume. 36, Issue 8, 082001(2024)

Energy deposition characteristics of tritium breeding blanket in laser inertial confinement fusion reactor

Xinze Li... Bingqian Zhang, Ronghua Chen*, Kui Zhang, Dalin Zhang, Wenxi Tian, Suizheng Qiu and Guanghui Su |Show fewer author(s)
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  • Department of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
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    This study presents a conceptual design of a 200 MW laser Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) reactor blanket, referring to fusion reactor technologies. The blanket employs a dual-coolant structure consisting of supercritical CO2 (S-CO2) and liquid lead-lithium (PbLi). Transient and steady-state coupled models are established to calculate the temperature distribution and variations within the blanket. The implosion of the pellets is computed using MULTI-IFE. The nuclear heat coupling part is based on the Monte Carlo program OpenMC and self-programmed heat transfer models to calculate the blanket’s structure, cooling, and tritium production. The research findings indicate that the nuclear heat coupling model can complete preliminary calculations and analysis of the blanket. Periodic transient loads cause oscillations in the temperature of the first wall surface, but the temperature inside the blanket eventually converges to the steady-state calculation results. The reactor size significantly affects temperature reduction and oscillation effects, but it still requires xenon to flat radiation power peak. Both tritium production and energy export from the blanket are influenced by the reactor cavity size and the size of the breeding zone. Under the 200 MW operating conditions, it shows that a 3 m radius and a 0.25 m breeding zone size best meet the requirements.

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    Xinze Li, Bingqian Zhang, Ronghua Chen, Kui Zhang, Dalin Zhang, Wenxi Tian, Suizheng Qiu, Guanghui Su. Energy deposition characteristics of tritium breeding blanket in laser inertial confinement fusion reactor[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2024, 36(8): 082001

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    Received: Mar. 18, 2024

    Accepted: Jun. 6, 2024

    Published Online: Aug. 8, 2024

    The Author Email: Chen Ronghua (rhchen@mail.xjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.11884/HPLPB202436.240098

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