Accelerator driven production of tritium : target and blanket design /
'blanket assembly'. The systems described in this thesis
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | 'blanket assembly'. The systems described in this thesis 215 tritium atoms per incident proton for the LiF accelerator technologies (SDI and SSC studies) and to the accelerator-based production of tritium seems feasible and is accelerators is a two step process: the production of accomplish the tritium production mission was to use fission also considered. This design was the most promising with -24 atoms per incident proton for the L'20 blanket, - 1 6 tritium atoms per incident proton for the LiF BeF2ZrF4blanket, and - BeF2ZrF4UF4blanket. An homogeneous target/blanket system being investigated. The production of tritium using consisting of molten lithium lead eutectic (L',7Pb83) was containing '6Li in various mixtures). The high energy current), lead targets for the production of neutrons via either lithium oxide or molten fluorine salt with or without employ a linear accelerator (1 GeV protons, I 00 mA beam interactions and the particle transport were modeled with the LAHET computer code system. Heterogeneous and homogeneous lead, and 2/ layers of solid lead plates cooled by heavy neutrons in the 'target' and the use of these neutrons in the of hydrogen, and one-half of the inventory disappears through of warheads and therefore the tritium requirements), post cold war era (international treaties limiting the number radioactive decay every 12 years; therefore, it must be reactors. Recently, thanks to the development of new replenished. Until a few years ago, the only way to spallation reactions, and tritium breeding regions (blankets spallation target/blanket systems were investigated. The target designs in the heterogeneous systems were 1 / liquid the US arsenal. Unfortunately, tritium is a radioactive form to -29 tritium atoms per incident proton, upgradable to -32 tritium atoms per incident proton. Tritium is an essential component of thermonuclear weapons in UF4' The tritium production rates achieved were - 1 5 tritium water. The tritium breeding blanket assemblies contained |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Nuclear Engineering". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 163 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references: pages 110-112. |