Fusion reactor divertor component with tritium resistance function
Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of magnetic confinement nuclear fusion, in particular to a fusion reactor divertor component with a tritium resistance function.
Background
The modern magnetic confinement fusion reactor generally adopts a divertor configuration, and the divertor configuration can effectively shield impurities from the wall of the reactor, reduce pollution to central plasma, and discharge particle flow and heat flow from the central plasma and helium ash generated in the nuclear fusion reaction process. The plasma-facing component (PFC) of the divertor is made of a high temperature-resistant plasma-facing material (e.g., tungsten) and a structural material having a relatively high thermal conductivity (e.g., a copper alloy or steel). In the design of the existing international thermonuclear fusion experimental reactor ITER and partial fusion reactor divertor components, in order to relieve the action of thermal stress and electromagnetic force on the divertor components, large-area integral tungsten blocks are not adopted as materials facing to plasma, a through-tube (monoblock) structure is adopted, namely tungsten tiles are welded on a heat sink tube in a penetrating mode, gaps are reserved among the tiles, and structural materials at the bottoms of the gaps are exposed out of an external vacuum chamber.
Tritium, one of the fusion fuels, is extremely expensive and radioactive. Tritium is confined in the core by a magnetic field mainly in the form of plasma, but part of tritium particles (including ion and atomic states) can still bombard the surface of the divertor by diffusion across magnetic lines of force and charge exchange processes; at the divertor strike point, the tritium ions and atoms interact more strongly directly with the plasma-facing component. Although the gaps and the magnetic lines have a certain included angle, charged particles are prevented from entering along the magnetic lines, high-flux neutral tritium atoms in the boundary plasma are not restricted by the magnetic field, and can directly bombard structural materials at the bottom of the PFC through the gaps and enter a cooling loop in a super-permeation mode. Because the diffusivity and the permeability of the hydrogen isotope in the structural material are higher than those of tungsten serving as a material facing plasma, and the wall thickness of the pipeline is smaller, the speed and the flux of tritium permeating into the PFC from the shortcut are far higher than those of the tritium bombarding the surface of the tungsten, and the economy and the safety of the fusion reactor are further influenced.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the problems of the prior art, the invention provides a fusion reactor divertor component with a tritium resistance function.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
a fusion reactor divertor component with a tritium resistance function comprises a plurality of tungsten tiles, an adaptive layer and a cooling runner pipe, wherein the tungsten tiles are arranged side by side, and the middle parts of the tungsten tiles are provided with coaxial through holes with the same diameter. Be equipped with between the adjacent tungsten tile and hinder tritium part, be fixed with the adaptation layer on the through-hole inner wall, during the cooling runner pipe penetrated the adaptation layer of each tungsten tile, the coolant was followed pass through in the cooling runner pipe. The tungsten tile is a flat tungsten tile, and the surface of the flat tungsten tile is smooth and clean. The material of the adaptation layer is oxygen-free copper, and the oxygen-free copper is attached to the hole wall of the tungsten tile by casting or hot isostatic pressing. The material of the cooling runner pipe is copper alloy or low activation steel, and the cooling runner pipe is combined with the adaptive layer through a hot isostatic pressing or brazing process.
Tritium-resistant rings or boss type tungsten tiles are filled in gaps between adjacent tungsten tiles to serve as tritium-resistant components, so that the cooling runner pipe is prevented from being directly exposed to the in-pile environment, and the tritium-resistant function is achieved. If the tritium-resistant component is a tritium-resistant ring, the size of the tritium-resistant ring can completely cover the cooling runner pipe at the gap between the adjacent tungsten tiles, the tritium-resistant ring has the positioning function of controlling the size precision of the gap of the tungsten tiles in the hot isostatic pressing or brazing connection process of the whole component, and the tritium-resistant ring is made of tungsten and molybdenum materials with low hydrogen isotope permeability. If the tritium-resistant component is a boss type tungsten tile, the same side of each boss type tungsten tile is provided with an annular boss, and the size of each annular boss can completely cover the cooling runner pipe at the gap between the adjacent tungsten tiles.
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
the divertor component does not need to change the original manufacturing process greatly in the manufacturing process, and can effectively control the manufacturing cost; through the implementation of the tritium-resistant structure provided by the invention, the divertor can bear 10MW/m during operation2Steady state heat flow and 1024m- 2s-1The stable particle flow has the tritium permeation resistance function, the radioactive hydrogen isotope tritium entering into a coolant is reduced, the load of the fusion reactor tritium water post-treatment is relieved, and the safety is improved; meanwhile, the tritium cycle process of the fusion reactor is accelerated, the scale of a tritium plant is expected to be reduced, and the economy of the fusion reactor is improved.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a component of a divertor with a tritium-resistant ring according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a component of the divertor with a tritium trap ring shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a divertor component without a resistance tritium ring provided by an embodiment of the present invention.
In the drawings, the reference numerals denote: 1-tungsten tile, 2-adaptation layer, 3-cooling runner pipe, 4-coolant, 5-tritium-resistant ring.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The first embodiment is as follows:
fig. 1 shows the main structure of the present embodiment: the tungsten tile 1, the adaptation layer 2, the cooling runner pipe 3, the tritium-resistant ring 5 and the coolant 4 pass through the cooling runner pipe 3.
The cross section structure is shown in figure 2, in this case, the oxygen-free copper adapting layer 2 is fixed in an inner hole of an open-pore flat tungsten tile 1 with the length of 28 mm, the width of 28 mm and the thickness of 12 mm in a casting mode, and the diameter of a hole in the tungsten tile 1 is 17 mm; a chromium-zirconium copper pipe with the inner diameter of 12 mm and the outer diameter of 15 mm is used as a cooling runner pipe 3, and the cooling runner pipe 3 penetrates into the adaptation layer 2 with the inner diameter of 15 mm and the outer diameter of 17 mm; tritium-resistant rings 5 with the inner diameter of 15 mm, the outer diameter of 19 mm and the width of 0.5 mm are filled in gaps between all adjacent tungsten tiles, and the tritium-resistant rings 5 are made of pure tungsten. And finally completing hot isostatic pressing of the whole part.
The second embodiment:
as shown in FIG. 3, no tritium-resistant ring is needed in this case, and the same side of each boss-type tungsten tile is provided with an annular boss which has tritium-resistant function. The oxygen-free copper adaptation layer 2 is fixed in an open-pore boss type tungsten tile block 1 with the length of 18mm, the width of 16mm and the thickness of 4mm in a casting mode, the outer diameter of a boss is 11mm, and the height of the boss is 0.2 mm; the diameter of a hole in the tungsten tile 1 is 9 mm; the low activation steel pipe with the inner diameter of 6mm and the outer diameter of 7mm is used as a cooling runner pipe 3, the runner pipe 3 penetrates into the oxygen-free copper adaptation layer 2 with the inner diameter of 7mm and the outer diameter of 9mm, and finally hot isostatic pressing of the whole component is completed.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.