Issues in Radioactive Waste Management for Fusion Power

Analysis of recent conceptual designs reveals that commercial fusion power systems will raise issues of occupational and public health and safety. This paper focuses on radioactive wastes from fusion reactor materials activated by neutrons. The analysis shows that different selections of materials a...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on nuclear science 1983-01, Vol.30 (1), p.571-576
Main Authors: Maninger, R. C., Dorn, D. W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Energy management
Fusion reactor design
Health and safety
Occupational safety
Power system analysis computing
Power system management
Public healthcare
Radio spectrum management
Radioactive waste
Waste management
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Summary:Analysis of recent conceptual designs reveals that commercial fusion power systems will raise issues of occupational and public health and safety. This paper focuses on radioactive wastes from fusion reactor materials activated by neutrons. The analysis shows that different selections of materials and neutronic designs can make differences in orders-of-magnitude of the kinds and amounts of radioactivity to be expected. By careful and early evaluation of the impacts of the selections on waste management, designers can produce fusion power systems with radiation from waste well below today's limits for occupational and public health and safety.
ISSN:0018-9499
1558-1578
DOI:10.1109/TNS.1983.4332335