Abstract
The attractiveness of various advanced fusion fuel cycles for use in commercial fusion reactors is investigated. A plasma and reactor simulation code and a nuclear data library were developed for that porpose. Under the basic assumption of a two-component plasma (thermalized bulk plasma and suprathermal reaction products), lithium and boron were found not to qualify as fuel components because of their poor power performance. For (semi-)catalyzed D and for D- 3He, a reasonably large window was identified in parameter space for which the overall energy balance is positive. Various “attractiveness indicators” (neutron load, tritium, etc.) are evaluated and compared to the corresponding values for D-T fueled reactors.
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