Updated neutronics analyses of a water cooled ceramic breeder blanket for the CFETR. (5th September 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: ZHANG 张, Xiaokang 小康; LIU 刘, Songlin 松林; LI 李, Xia 夏; ZHU 祝, Qingjun 庆军; LI 李, Jia 佳
• Is Part Of: Plasma science and technology. Volume 19:Number 11(2017:Nov.)
• Publication Date: 2017-09-05
• Subjects: CFETR -- WCCB -- neutronics analyses; Plasma (Ionized gases) -- Periodicals; 530.44
• DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/aa808b
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1009-0630

Abstract

Abstract: The water cooled ceramic breeder (WCCB) blanket employing pressurized water as a coolant is one of the breeding blanket candidates for the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR). Some updating of neutronics analyses was needed, because there were changes in the neutronics performance of the blanket as several significant modifications and improvements have been adopted for the WCCB blanket, including the optimization of radial build-up and customized structure for each blanket module. A 22.5 degree toroidal symmetrical torus sector 3D neutronics model containing the updated design of the WCCB blanket modules was developed for the neutronics analyses. The tritium breeding capability, nuclear heating power, radiation damage, and decay heat were calculated by the MCNP and FISPACT code. The results show that the packing factor and 6 Li enrichment of the breeder should both be no less than 0.8 to ensure tritium self-sufficiency. The nuclear heating power of the blanket under 200 MW fusion power reaches 201.23 MW. The displacement per atom per full power year (FPY) of the plasma-facing component and first wall reach 0.90 and 2.60, respectively. The peak H production rate reaches 150.79 appm/FPY and the peak He production reaches 29.09 appm/FPY in blanket module #3. The total decay heat of the blanket modules is 2.64 MW at 1 s after shutdown and the average decay heat density can reach 11.09 kW m −3 at that time. The decay heat density of the blanket modules slowly decreases to lower than 10 W m −3 in more than ten years.