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 breeding for a fusion reactor are summarized; these include the handling of large amounts of tritium: confinement, leakage, contamination, permeation, regulation and tritium accountancy, and impacts on surrounding areas. Targeting and encouraging the students and technicians who will design and operate fusion reactors in the near future, this book offers a valuable resource on tritium science and technology.

Targets and encourages the students and technicians who will design and operate fusion reactors in the near future Offers essential insights into the tritium science and technology required to establish a fusion reactor Includes numerical simulations for fusion reactor designs Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Introduction of a nuclear fusion reactor.- Characteristics of tritium.- Fuel flow and balance in a DT fusion reactor.- Burning plasma.- Behavior of fuels in reactor.- Tritium fueling system.- Tritium measurement I.- Tritium measurement II.- Permeation and Permeation Barrier.- Contamination and decontamination.- Isotope separation system (ISS).- Evaluation method of tritium breeding ratio using neutron transport equation.- Recovery of Tritium Bred in Blanket.- Safety confinement system.- Behavior of tritium released to the environment.