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Progress in EU Breeding Blanket design and integration

2018

Abstract In Europe (EU), in the frame of the EUROfusion consortium activities, four Breeding Blanket (BB) concepts are being developed with the aim of fulfilling the performances required by a near-term fusion power demonstration plant (DEMO) in terms of tritium self-sufficiency and electricity production. The four blanket options cover a wide range of technological possibilities, as water and helium are considered as possible coolants and solid ceramic breeder in combination with beryllium and PbLi as tritium breeder and neutron multipliers. The strategy for the BB selection and operation has to account for the challenging schedule of the EU DEMO, the ambitious operational requirements of …

Computer scienceIn-vessel and ex-vessel componentsBlanketContinuous design7. Clean energy01 natural sciencesBalance of plan010305 fluids & plasmas[SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics]Balance of plant; Breeding Blanket; In-vessel and ex-vessel components; Civil and Structural Engineering; Nuclear Energy and Engineering; Materials Science (all); Mechanical Engineering0103 physical sciencesGeneral Materials Science010306 general physicsSettore ING-IND/19 - Impianti NucleariCivil and Structural EngineeringBalance of plantBreeding BlanketMechanical EngineeringFrame (networking)Schedule (project management)tIn-vessel and ex-vessel componentsElectricity generationNuclear Energy and Engineering13. Climate actionInterfacingSystems engineeringDemonstration PlantIn-vessel and ex-vessel componentMaterials Science (all)Design evolution
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Status of the EU DEMO HCLL breeding blanket design development

2018

International audience; In the framework of the European “HORIZON 2020” innovation and research programme, the EUROfusion Consortium develops a design of a fusion power demonstrator (DEMO). One of the key components in the fusion reactor is the Breeding Blanket (BB) surrounding the plasma, ensuring tritium self-sufficiency, heat removal for conversion into electricity, and neutron shielding. CEA-Saclay, with the support of Wigner-RCP and Centrum výzkumu Řež, is in charge of the development of one of the four BB concepts investigated in Europe for DEMO: the Helium Cooled Lithium Lead (HCLL) BB. The rationales of the HCLL are the use of Eurofer as structural material, eutectic liquid lithium-…

Computer scienceNuclear engineeringBlanketBreeding7. Clean energy01 natural sciences010305 fluids & plasmasTritium breeding ratio0103 physical sciencesGeneral Materials Science010306 general physicsDEMOSettore ING-IND/19 - Impianti NucleariCivil and Structural EngineeringBreeding BlanketHelium gasMechanical EngineeringFusion power[INFO.INFO-MO]Computer Science [cs]/Modeling and SimulationCoolantNuclear Energy and EngineeringElectromagnetic shieldingHCLLBlanketMaterials Science (all)Design evolution
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Overview of the HCPB Research Activities in EUROfusion

2018

In the framework of the EUROfusion’s Power Plant Physics and Technology, the working package breeding blanket (BB) aims at investigating four different BB concepts for an EU demonstration fusion reactor (DEMO). One of these concepts is the helium-cooled pebble bed (HCPB) BB, which is based on the use of pebble beds of lithiated ternary compounds and Be or beryllides as tritium breeder and multiplier materials, respectively, EUROFER97 as structural steel and He as coolant. This paper aims at giving an overview of the EU HCPB BB Research and Development (R&D) being developed at KIT, in collaboration with Wigner-RCP, BUTE-INT, and CIEMAT. The paper gives an outline of the HCPB BB design evolut…

Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsPower stationHelium-cooled pebble bed (HCPB)BlanketCondensed Matter Physics7. Clean energy01 natural sciences010305 fluids & plasmas13. Climate action0103 physical sciencesdemonstration fusion reactor (DEMO)Systems engineeringEUROfusion010306 general physicsDesign evolutiontritium breedingSettore ING-IND/19 - Impianti Nucleari
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