Ecologically soft deuterium-deuterium reactor with FBX-III moving plasma core reactor scheme

Masaru Irie*

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    Abstract

    An ecologically soft fusion scheme of FBX - III Moving Plasma Core Reactor is discussed. One of the most severe problems of a fusion reactor is induced radioactivity. The problem is caused by 14 MeV neutrons produced by a direct fusion reaction between deuterium and tritium. In this point, a fusion reactor becomes much more safer with pure tritium fuel without deuterium. Our scheme use catalyzed deuterium-deuterium reaction to reduce this problem. This is a far difficult path for the plasma engineers than the current scenario with the deuterium - tritium fusion fuel. FBX-III is designed to be as simple as possible to obtain high reliability. She is subdivided into several sectors. Each sector devotes to only limited tasks. Fusion reactions are initiated not in the plasma production sector but in the reactor sector. This is triggered by the toroidal adiabatic compression followed by the neutral beam injection system with MeV particle energy.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - Symposium on Fusion Engineering
    Place of PublicationPiscataway, NJ, United States
    PublisherIEEE
    Pages245-248
    Number of pages4
    Volume1
    Publication statusPublished - 1998
    EventProceedings of the 1997 17th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering. Part 1 (of 2) - San Diego, CA, USA
    Duration: 1997 Oct 61997 Oct 10

    Other

    OtherProceedings of the 1997 17th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering. Part 1 (of 2)
    CitySan Diego, CA, USA
    Period97/10/697/10/10

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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