Estimation of Tritium and Dust Source Term in European DEMOnstration Fusion Reactor During Accident Scenarios

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Result on the web

<a href="https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/nuclearengineering/article-abstract/5/3/030916/725860/Estimation-of-Tritium-and-Dust-Source-Term-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext" target="_blank" >https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/nuclearengineering/article-abstract/5/3/030916/725860/Estimation-of-Tritium-and-Dust-Source-Term-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4043379" target="_blank" >10.1115/1.4043379</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Estimation of Tritium and Dust Source Term in European DEMOnstration Fusion Reactor During Accident Scenarios

Original language description

The safety features of the future nuclear fusion reactors are one of the key issues for their attractiveness if compared with the fission plants. In fusion devices, accidents with high release of radioactive materials have low probabilities because the most part of abnormal transients lead to passive plasma shutdown. It does not mean that radiological source terms such tritium and activated dust are not generated and released, but their inventory does not increase during abnormal events. Therefore, the source term inventory has to be assessed during normal operation and traced when accidents occur. For this reason, a study for qualification and quantification of the tritium and dust source term (DTS) was established with the aim to understand their production, deposition, and penetration in the vacuum vessel (VV) and in the breeding blanket (BB). The main concern is source term release during the main accident scenarios to comply with a future licensing process. In case of abnormal event scenarios, the source term inventory involved in the release changes and requires a different confinement approach and mitigation. For the estimation of the source term in the DEMOnstration Fusion Power Station (DEMO), a methodology was developed. The methodology scales the tritium and DTS inside the VV from the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, the European Power Plant Conceptual Study, and reports the tritium generated inside the breeder blanket from data quantified in other studies for DEMO. In this article, the methodology was updated and tritium and DTS for DEMO 2016 design were estimated. Moreover, the tritium and dust release pathways were highlighted according to different accidental scenarios. These results were obtained for all blanket concepts, which are analyzing in the ongoing DEMO EUROFusion project. The values estimated in this article will be used in the safety analyses to evaluate releases or to quantify the operational limits starting from values postulated in International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20305 - Nuclear related engineering; (nuclear physics to be 1.3);

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science

ISSN

2332-8983

e-ISSN

2332-8975

Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

1-7

UT code for WoS article

000470245100017

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85070799976