Design Concept of Supercritical CO₂ Gas Cooled Divertors in FFHR Series Fusion Reactors

Abstract

In the FFHR power reactor equipped with a supercritical CO₂ gas turbine power generation system, an divertor cooling system is connected to this power generation system [S. Ishiyama et al., Prog. Nucl. Energy 50, No.12-6, 325 (2008)[1]]. In this paper, for the purpose of developing a diverter by supercritical CO₂ gas cooling that can cope with a neutron heavy irradiation environment with a heat load of 15 MW/m² or more, CFD heat transfer flow analysis was carried out for performance evaluation and its design optimization by a structural analysis models of a supercritical CO₂ gas cooled divertors. As a result, in the supercritical CO₂ gas cooled tungsten mono-block divertors (50 × 50 mm × 5 channel × 5,000 mL) with a flow path length of 5 m or less, the engineering designable range of these advanced diverters having the same cooling performance as the water cooling divertor was clarified, and its practicality is extremely high from the feature that the structural model has an extremely low risk during operation as compared with the water cooled divertor.