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Different Mechanisms for Establishing Liquid Walls in Advanced Reactor Systems

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The APEX study is investigating the use of free flowing liquid surfaces to form the inner surface of the chamber around a fusion plasma. In this study the modeling of APEX hybrid reactor produced by using ARIES-RS hybrid reactor technology, was performed by using the Monte Carlo code and ENF/B–V–VI nuclear data. The most important feature of APEX hybrid reactor is that the first wall surrounding the plasma is liquid. The advantages of utilizing a liquid wall are high power density capacity, good power transformation productivity the magnitude of the reactor’s operational duration, low failure percentage, short maintenance time and the inclusion of the system’s simple technology and material. Around the fusion chamber, molten salt Li2BeF4 and natural lithium were used as cooling materials. The result of the study indicated that fissile material production UF4 and ThF4 heavy metal salt increased nearly at the same percentage.

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Abbreviations

T6 :

Tritium breeding rate obtained from reaction 6Li(n,α)T

T7 :

Tritium breeding rate obtained from Reaction 7Li(n,α,n’)T

TBR: T6 + T7 :

Tritium breeding ratio

GMD:

Gravity momentum driver

COE:

Cost of electricity

V:

Fluid velocity (m/s)

g:

Gravitational acceleration (m/s2)

Rc :

Radius of curvature (m)

MHD:

Magneto hydrodynamic

M:

The energy multiplication factor

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    Aybaba Hançerlioğullari & Mesut Cini

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Hançerlioğullari, A., Cini, M. Different Mechanisms for Establishing Liquid Walls in Advanced Reactor Systems. J Fusion Energ 32, 155–163 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10894-012-9539-z

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