Hybrid “Fusion-Fission” Reactor Facility on Thorium Fuel with a Source of Additional Thermonuclear Neutrons
https://doi.org/10.25205/2541-9447-2021-16-1-21-43
Abstract
The results of full-scale numerical experiments of a hybrid thorium-containing fuel cell facility operating in a close-to-critical state due to a controlled source of fusion neutrons are discussed in this work. The facility under study was a complex consisting of two blocks. The first block was based on the concept of a high-temperature gas-cooled thorium reactor core. The second block was an axially symmetrical extended plasma generator of additional neutrons that was placed in the near-axial zone of the facility blanket. The calculated models of the blanket and the plasma generator of D-T neutrons created within the work allowed for research of the neutronic parameters of the facility in stationary and pulse-periodic operation modes. This research will make it possible to construct a safe facility and investigate the properties of thorium fuel, which can be continuously used in the epithermal spectrum of the considered hybrid fusion-fission reactor.
Keywords
hybrid “fusion-fission” reactor,
thorium-containing fuel,
plasma pulse-periodic generator,
repetitively pulsed operation,
“wave” fission
Supporting agencies: This research was supported by RFBR, project no. 19-29-02005
About the Authors
I. V. Shamanin
National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Igor V. Shamanin, Doctor of Science (Physics and Mathematics), Professor, Head of Department
Tomsk
A. V. Arzhannikov
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Andrey V. Arzhannikov, Doctor of Science (Physics and Mathematics), Professor, Head Researcher, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics; Professor, Novosibirsk State University
Novosibirsk
V. V. Prikhodko
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vadim V. Prikhodko, Candidate of Science (Physics and Mathematics), Senior Researcher
Novosibirsk
V. M. Shmakov
Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Federal Nuclear Center – Zababakhin All-Russia Research Institute of Technical Physics”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vladimir M. Shmakov, Candidate of Science (Physics and Mathematics), Leading Researcher
Snezhinsk
D. G. Modestov
Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Federal Nuclear Center – Zababakhin All-Russia Research Institute of Technical Physics”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dmitry G. Modestov, Senior Research Fellow
Snezhinsk
I. O. Lutsik
National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Igor O. Lutsik, PhD student
Tomsk
S. D. Polozkov
National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sergey D. Polozkov, PhD student
Tomsk
S. V. Bedenko
National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sergey V. Bedenko, Candidate of Science (Physics and Mathematics), Associate Professor
Tomsk
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Shamanin I.V., Arzhannikov A.V., Prikhodko V.V., Shmakov V.M., Modestov D.G., Lutsik I.O., Polozkov S.D., Bedenko S.V. Hybrid “Fusion-Fission” Reactor Facility on Thorium Fuel with a Source of Additional Thermonuclear Neutrons. SIBERIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. 2021;16(1):21-43. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25205/2541-9447-2021-16-1-21-43
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