Perspectives of SiC-Based Ceramic Composites and Their Applications to Fusion Reactors 2.Fusion Power Reactor Designs Adopting SiC⁄SiC Composite as the Structural Material

Abstract

SiC⁄SiC composite is a promising structural material candidate for fusion power cores and has been considered internationally in several power plant studies. It offers safety advantages arising from it slow induced radioactivity and afterheat, and the possibility of high efficiency of energy conversion through high temperature operation. The latest SiC⁄SiC-based power core design studies are summarized, and the key SiC⁄SiC parameters affecting the performance of power core components are high lighted.