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 br
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Tritium: Fuel of Fusion Reactors
Tritium: Fuel of Fusion Reactors
Tetsuo Tanabe Editor
Tritium: Fuel of Fusion Reactors
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Editor Tetsuo Tanabe Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences Kyushu University Fukuoka Japan
ISBN 978-4-431-56458-4 DOI 10.1007/978-4-431-56460-7
ISBN 978-4-431-56460-7
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Preface
After long and significant efforts of researchers on plasma confinement to realize controlled D-T nuclear fusion on Earth, now the International Tokamak Experimental Reactor (ITER) will soon be ready to demonstrate the fusion reaction producing energy. This research has taken a longer time in comparison with the rapid construction of successful nuclear fission reactors following the discovery of energy release in nuclear reactions. Nevertheless, to realize the fusion reactor as an energy source, many engineering–technological issues remain to be solved. It is unnecessary to say that the most important point is that the fusion reactor must be economically beneficial. The initial or capital cost to construct the fusion reactor is unavoidable, and most of the cost estimates so far indicate that a fusion reactor could be economical and repay its capital investment. But additional costs related to tritium fuel, or to sustaining fuel self-sufficiency in a D-T fusion reactor, and the trade-offs between tritium breeding and electricity production (or energy conversion) and tritium safety, are not small, and considerable effort will be required to reduce these costs. The main purpose of this book is to summarize recent efforts to establish fuel self-sufficiency in a D-T fusion reactor with strict regulation o
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