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The University of Missouri has entered a consulting agreement with construction firm Burns & McDonnell to develop NextGen MURR, a new 20-MW light water research reactor that will produce medical isotopes for cancer treatments and theranostics and will be used to conduct neutron science research.
G. L. Kulcinski, James P. Blanchard, Laila A. El-Guebaly, Gilbert A. Emmert, Hesham Y. Khater, Charles W. Maynard, E. A. Mogahed, John F. Santarius, Mohamed E. Sawan, I. N. Sviatoslavsky, L. J. Wittenberg
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 4 | July 1992 | Pages 2292-2296
Technical Paper | Special Issue on D-He Fusion / D-3He/Fusion Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29722
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The key features of Apollo, a conceptual D-3He tokamak reactor for commercial electricity production, are summarized. The 1000-MW(electric) design utilizes direct conversion of synchrotron radiation power and thermal conversion of transport, neutron, and bremsstrahlung radiation power. The direct conversion method uses rectennas, and the thermal conversion cycle uses an organic coolant. Apollo operates in the first-stability regime, with a major radius of 7.89 m, a peak magnetic field on the toroidal field coils of 19.3 T, a 53-MA plasma current, and a 6.7% beta value. The low neutron production of the D-3He fuel cycle greatly reduces the radiation damage rate and allows a full-lifetime first wall and structure made of standard steels with only slight modifications to reduce activation levels. The reduced radioactive inventory and afterheat give significant safety and environmental advantages over deuterium-tritium reactors.