Economic Evaluation of Fissile Fuel Production Using Resistive Magnet Tokamaks

J. C. Doyle; D. R. Cohn; L. M. Lidsky; L. Bromberg

doi:dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39911

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Economic Evaluation of Fissile Fuel Production Using Resistive Magnet Tokamaks

J. C. Doyle, D. R. Cohn, L. M. Lidsky, L. Bromberg

Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 8 / Number 1P2B / July 1985 / Pages 1051-1056

Fusion Breeder / Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39911

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Application of resistive magnet tokamaks to fissile fuel production has been studied. The Resistive magnet Tokamak Fusion Breeder (RTFB) uses semi-monolithic Bitter plate toroidal field coils and has a major radius of 3.81 m. with a fusion power output of 618 MWth. An energy-multiplying blanket gives a total blanket power of 4986 MWth, while producing 3742 kg/yr of ²³³U and ²³⁹Pu. The RTFB cost is estimated to be $2.6B.