A pellet model of DT ignitor and DD fuel for an ICF reactor without tritium breeding blanket
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[en] A pellet concept of a DT ignitor and DD fuel for an ICF reactor without a tritium breeding blanket is analytically examined under the condition that T is bred through the DD reactions. There is the additional restriction that the tritium breeding ratio in a pellet is unity, including the in situ DT burn in the DD region. Model calculations show that sufficiently high pellet gain can be obtained in a DT-DD pellet, when fuel rhoR increases to --40 g/cm2 and the fraction of energy released in the DD region becomes dominant. One-dimensional neutronics calculations carried out for a reference pellet model with rhoR --40 g/cm2 show that the neutron heating in the compressed pellet model is evident and the total energy of the neutrons escaping from the pellet is reduced from --2000 MJ to 330 MJ for a microexplosion of --3000 MJ. (author)
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Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Part 1; v. 22(7); p. 1194-1199
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BARYONS, BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, CONFINEMENT, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, FERMIONS, FUELS, HADRONS, HYDROGEN ISOTOPES, ISOTOPES, LIGHT NUCLEI, NUCLEAR REACTIONS, NUCLEI, NUCLEONS, NUCLEOSYNTHESIS, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, ODD-ODD NUCLEI, PLASMA CONFINEMENT, RADIOISOTOPES, STABLE ISOTOPES, SYNTHESIS, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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