Jili Cai1, Junyi Zhou1, Hangyu Chen1, Liang Huang1, Wenming Jiang1, Jie Liu1, Zhongwei Li1, Chao Cai1,*
The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.29, No.3, pp. 1-2, 2024, DOI:10.32604/icces.2024.011946
Abstract Effectively obtaining tritium is one of the essential issues to realize commercial and controlled nuclear fusion [1]. Conventional lithium-containing ceramic tritium breeders with pebble bed configurations in fusion reactors have shown insurmountable structural drawbacks weakening tritium extraction, including inherently low packing fractions, extensive stress concentrations, and low thermal conductivity. Therefore, extensive efforts have been devoted to enhancing tritium extraction by improving the design of tritium breeders and addressing structural drawbacks [2-4]. In this study, porous block configurations were proposed to replace conventional pebble bed configurations for the ceramic tritium breeder. Utilizing fluid-solid coupled heat transfer… More >