An ICF Reactor Cavity to Maximize Tritium Breeding
Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 8 / Number 1P2B / July 1985 / Pages 1815-1819
Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor / 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-A40024
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Conceptual design for an ICF tritium production reactor has been completed. The cavity design is unique in that beryllium is used both as a neutron multiplier and a structural material. Neutronics calculations show the breeding ratio is over 2.0. The special problems posed by using beryllium as a structural material in a radiation environment are explored, and stresses and strains are quanitified.
