Tritium production and containment performance of lithium rod test module for high temperature gas-cooled reactor

Ida, Yuma*; Matsuura, Hideaki*; Nagasumi, Satoru*; Katayama, Kazunari*; Otsuka, Teppei*; Goto, Minoru  ; Nakagawa, Shigeaki  

JAEA and Kyushu University have studied the tritium production method using high temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR) for initial fusion reactors. In this method, lithium compounds are loaded into the reactor core and tritium is produced with Li(n,)T reaction. We studied about optimization of lithium loading method, effective tritium containment method and nuclear thermal design of lithium loaded HTGR, and consequently we confirmed the feasibility of the tritium production method. Then, we started preliminary study for lithium irradiation experiment by test reactors. This paper describes evaluation results of tritium production and tritium containment for proposed lithium irradiation capsule.