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Can hydrogen be the transportation fuel in an otherwise nuclear economy?
Let’s face it: The global economy should be powered primarily by nuclear power. And it probably will by the end of this century, with a still-significant assist from renewables and hydro. Once nuclear systems are dominant, the costs come down to where gas is now; and when carbon emissions are reduced to a small portion of their present state, it will become obvious that most other sources are only good in niche settings. I mean, why use small modular reactors to load-follow when they can just produce that power instead of buffering it?
Yasunobu Arikawa, Yuki Iwasa, Kohei Yamanoi, Keisuke Iwano, Shinsuke Fujioka, Akifumi Iwamoto, Mitsuo Nakai, Yuji Hatano, Masanori Hara, Satoshi Akamaru, Takayoshi Norimatsu, Ryosuke Kodama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 4 | May 2020 | Pages 464-470
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1716458
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In inertial confinement fusion (ICF), a fuel target containing deuterium and tritium is used. In recent ICF experiments on the Gekko XII LFEX facility at the Institute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University (ILE-Osaka), a target comprised of a polystyrene capsule filled with D2O liquid and a solution of X-ray tracer materials, such as copper, titanium, or chlorine, was developed. In this study, an additional T2O doping technique by which tritium can be mixed uniformly has been developed. The T2O is synthesized by T2 gas using a CuO oxidation catalyst. The T2O is agglutinated by cold trap and transferred to a target cell in which a D2O-solution-filled target is placed. Because polystyrene is slightly permeable for T2O and D2O, D2O is exchanged by T2O and completely mixed. Thus, a uniform tritium-doped ICF target with various materials can be fabricated. The T2O synthesizing and doping system is developed and tested using H2 as a cold run. The H2O is successfully doped to a D2O prefilled target at approximately 50% doping. This scheme will be utilized in future fast ignition experiments at ILE-Osaka.