Tritium recovery from solid breeder blanket by water vapor addition to helium sweep gas

Kawamura, Yoshinori; Iwai, Yasunori; Nakamura, Hirofumi; Hayashi, Takumi; Yamanishi, Toshihiko; Nishi, Masataka

Fusion Science and Technology, 48(1), p.654 - 657, 2005/07

https://doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A1010

Adding some amount of hydrogen to the helium sweep gas is effective for tritium extraction from blanket, but it causes permeation of tritium to a cooling system. In the design study of a demonstration reactor in JAERI, tritium leakage has been estimated to be about 20% of bred tritium under typical sweep gas conditions. If these tritiums are recovered under the ITER-WDS condition, tritium leakage limitation has to be less than 0.3% of typical case. Water vapor addition to the sweep gas is effective not only for blanket tritium extraction but also for permeation prevention. The reaction rate of isotope exchange is larger than the case of H, and the equilibrium constant is also expected to be about 1.0. When the H/T ratio is 100, tritium inventory of breeder material is larger than the case of H addition. However it is not so large. In case of HO sweep, separation of tritiated water from helium seems to be easyer, but the process that changes HTO to HT is necessary.

Plan and strategy for ITER blanket testing in Japan

Enoeda, Mikio; Akiba, Masato; Tanaka, Satoru*; Shimizu, Akihiko*; Hasegawa, Akira*; Konishi, Satoshi*; Kimura, Akihiko*; Koyama, Akira*; Sagara, Akio*; Muroga, Takeo*

Fusion Science and Technology, 47(4), p.1023 - 1030, 2005/05

https://doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A822

The Fusion Council of Japan has established the long-term research and development program of the blanket in 1999. In the program, the solid breeder blanket was selected as the primary candidate blanket of the fusion power demonstration plant in Japan. In the program, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) has been nominated as a leading institute of the development of solid breeder blankets, in collaboration with universities, for the near term power demonstration plant, while, universities including National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) are assigned mainly to develop advanced blankets for longer term power plant development. In the long term research and development program, ITER blanket module testing is identified as the most important milestone, by which integrity of candidate blanket concepts and structures are evaluated. In Japan, universities, NIFS and JAERI cover a variety of types of blanket development. This paper presents a plan and strategy for ITER blanket module testing in Japan.

Conceptual design of solid breeder blanket system cooled by supercritical water

Enoeda, Mikio; Ohara, Yoshihiro; Akiba, Masato; Sato, Satoshi; Hatano, Toshihisa; Kosaku, Yasuo; Kuroda, Toshimasa*; Kikuchi, Shigeto*; Yanagi, Yoshihiko*; Konishi, Satoshi; et al.

JAERI-Tech 2001-078, 120 Pages, 2001/12

JAERI-Tech-2001-078.pdf:8.3MB

This report is a summary of the design works, which was discussed in the design workshop held in 2000 for the demonstration (DEMO) blanket aimed to strengthen the commercial competitiveness and technical feasibility simultaneously. The DEMO blanket must supply the feasibility and experience of the total design of the power plant and the materials. This conceptual design study was performed to determine the updated strategy and goal of the R&D of the DEMO blanket which applies the supercritical water cooling proposed in A-SSTR, taking into account the recent progress of the plasma research and reactor engineering technology.

Design and R&D activities on ceramic breeder blanket for fusion experimental reactors in JAERI

Kurasawa, Toshimasa; Takatsu, Hideyuki; Sato, Satoshi; Nakahira, Masataka; Furuya, Kazuyuki; Hashimoto, T.*; Kawamura, Hiroshi; Kuroda, Toshimasa*; Tsunematsu, Toshihide; Seki, Masahiro

Fusion Technology 1994, Vol.2, 0, p.1233 - 1236, 1995/00

no abstracts in English

Correlation behavior of lithium and tritium in some solid breeder materials

; ; Kurasawa, T.; Katsuta, Hiroji;

Journal of Nuclear Materials, 133-134, p.181 - 185, 1985/00

https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3115(85)90130-8

no abstracts in English