Abstract
To improve the nuclear performance of fusion breeding blankets, the application of thermal type blankets with 6Li-enriched ceramics and low-activation ferritic steel is suggested. However, appropriate neutronics experiments to investigate the nuclear performance of such blankets have never been carried out. Therefore, we have done blanket neutronics experiments with stratified 95-% enriched 6Li2TiO3, stainless steel F82H and beryllium blocks using JAERI’s Fusion Neutronics Source (FNS) and verified the prediction accuracy of the tritium production rate and the production rate of selected isotopes in F82H in with the Monte Carlo code MCNP-4B and JENDL Fusion File, JENDL-3.2 and ENDF/B-VI data. Calculated tritium and 51Cr production rates were in good agreement with the measured values within the experimental error. However, discrepancies were found for 187W and 56Mn production rates.
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