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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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As most attendees of this year’s ANS Annual Conference left breakfast in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Downtown Marriott to sit in on presentations covering everything from career pathways in fusion to recently digitized archival nuclear films, 40 of them made their way to the hotel’s fifth floor to take part in the second offering of Nuclear 101, a newly designed certification course that seeks to give professionals who are in or adjacent to the industry an in-depth understanding of the essentials of nuclear energy and engineering from some of the field’s leading experts.
J. Jung
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 9 | Number 2 | March 1986 | Pages 308-319
Technical Paper | Tritium System | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24717
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
An assessment of tritium breeding requirements for fusion power reactors is presented. The analysis is based on an evaluation of time-dependent tritium inventories in the reactor system. The method presented can be applied to any fusion systems operating in a steady-state mode as well as in a pulsed mode. As an example, the UWMAK-I design was analyzed and it has been found that the startup inventory requirement calculated by the present method significantly differs from those previously calculated. The effect of reactor parameter changes on the required tritium breeding ratio is also analyzed for a variety of reactor operation scenarios. A FORTRAN-IV computer program, the JET-I code, has been developed to implement the present method. It is now in operation on the Argonne National Laboratory IBM-3033 computer system.
