A System Approach to Fission-Fusion Symbiosis
| dc.contributor.advisor | Harms, A. A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gordon, Charles William | |
| dc.contributor.department | Engineering Physics | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-11T13:08:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-08-11T13:08:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1975-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | <p> Three symbiotic systems are considered. These include the possibility of coupling the tritium production in a fission reactor with the fertile conversion in a fusion blanket. Equations for the fuel dynamics, power output, efficiency and costs of a symbiotic, selfcontained power station are developed and evaluated for a specific, 1500 MWe fission reactor operating on a thorium cycle and some fusion parameters. It is concluded that a system using the tritium produced in a fission reactor has lower costs and increased power output when compared to an alternate system. </p> | en_US |
| dc.description.degree | Master of Engineering (MEngr) | en_US |
| dc.description.degreetype | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/17882 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tritium production, coupling, fission reactor, fertile conversion, fusion blanket, fuel dynamics, power output, efficiency, cost of a sybiotic, self contained power station, thorium cycle | en_US |
| dc.title | A System Approach to Fission-Fusion Symbiosis | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |