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I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
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Hybrids and Nonelectric Applications | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22862
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A preliminary assessment of the prospects of tritium assisted D-D based fusion-breeders (FB) is performed. For this purpose, the D-T STARFIRE and the Cat-D WILDCAT tokamak designs are converted into FB's. Two tritium sources are considered for T-assistance - the FB blanket (using Li or 3He) and the client fission reactors. The TCD modes of operation, in which the 3He exhausted from the plasma is converted in the blanket into T which is fed back to the plasma, are found most promising of all D-D based FB's. Their profitability is somewhat lower than that of the D-T FB's, but they offer ∼50% higher support ratio and simpler blanket designs. T-assistance from client reactors might significantly improve the economics of FB's.