Abstract:
Concept research progress on blanket neutronics of a fusion-fission hybrid reactor for energy production was introduced. MCORGS, a burnup code coupled by MCNP and ORIGENS, was used in the research. Both tritium production zone and shielding zone were improved based on a one dimension model. Tritium production zone consists of several layers of Li
4SiO
4 seperated by water. Compared with the former design, both neutron absorption in water and the mass of Li
4SiO
4 are reduced dramatically. Shielding zone consists of several steel layers separated by water. Neutron leakage from the blanket is in the order of 10
-4. For magnetic coils,it is estimated that heat deposition power is less than 60 kW, accumulated neutron flux is below 10
22m
-2 within 28 years. Reprocessing strategies were discussed according to different volume ratio (
RV) between uranium and water. As
RV decreases, more fission products need to be cleaned. It is suggested that
RV equals 2 is used in the design so that the fuel can be remanufactured every 5 years and pyro-reprocessing, which can move fission products of boiling point less than 3 600 K, is needed every tens of years. In the last part, a 3-dimension blanket model, which is similar in International Thermonuclear Experiment Reactor’s geometry, was built and its neutronics was analyzed.