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Deep Isolation validates its disposal canister for TRISO spent fuel
Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation announced it has successfully completed Project PUCK, a government-funded initiative to demonstrate the feasibility and potential commercial readiness of its Universal Canister System (UCS) to manage TRISO spent nuclear fuel.
Jianqing Cai, Huasheng Xie, Yang Li, Michel Tuszewski, Hongbin Zhou, Peipei Chen
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 2 | February 2022 | Pages 149-163
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1964309
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Most tokamak devices including ITER exploit the deuterium-tritium reaction due to its high reactivity, but the wall loading caused by the associated 14-MeV neutrons will limit the further development of fusion performance at high beta. To explore the p-11B fusion cycle, a tokamak system code is extended to incorporate the relativistic bremsstrahlung since the temperature of electrons approaches the electron rest energy. By choosing an optimum p-11B mix and ion temperature, some representative sets of parameters of the p-11B tokamak reactor, whose fusion gain exceeds 1, have been found under the thermal wall loading limit and beta limit when synchrotron radiation loss is neglected. However, the fusion gain greatly decreases when the effect of synchrotron radiation loss is considered. Helium ash also plays an important role in the fusion performance, and we have found that the helium confinement time must be below the energy confinement time to keep the helium concentration ratio in an acceptable range.