Tritium: Fuel of Fusion Reactors

Book Overview

This book focuses on tritium as a fuel for fusion reactors and a next-generation energy source. Following an introduction of tritium as a hydrogen radioisotope, important issues involved in establishing safe and economical tritium fuel cycles including breeding for a fusion reactor are summarized; these include the handling of large amounts of tritium: confinement, leakage, contamination, permeation, regulation and tritium accountancy, and impacts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4431567925
• ISBN13: 9784431567929
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"