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Oxidation behaviour of EUROFER-97 under simulated water-cooled lithium lead breeder blanket conditions [PDF]

npj Materials Degradation
The effect of water chemistry, surface condition, alkalizing agent (LiOH vs. KOH), and Zn addition was investigated at 300 °C on the oxidation behaviour of reduced activation ferritic martensitic (RAF/M) EUROFER-97.
Liberato Volpe, Dora Capone, Peter Andresen, Eric Prestat, Fabio Scenini   +4 more
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Design of the CIEMAT Corrosion Loop for Liquid Metal Experiments

Applied Sciences, 2022
The main components of a liquid breeder blanket in a fusion power reactor are lead lithium alloy (PbLi) and the steel structure in which the liquid is enclosed (EUROFER). Several compatibility tests have shown that structural materials always suffer from
Elisabetta Carella, David Rapisarda, Stephan Lenk   +2 more
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Neutronic Activity for Development of the Promising Alternative Water-Cooled DEMO Concepts

Applied Sciences, 2023
An emerging breeding blanket that fulfills performance criteria, meets the safety requirements, and is reliable enough to meet the plant availability is a challenging issue that assumes complex studies involving numerous neutronic analyses based on the ...
Pavel Pereslavtsev, Francisco Alberto Hernández, Ivo Moscato, Jin Hun Park   +3 more
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Physical Background, Computations and Practical Issues of the Magnetohydrodynamic Pressure Drop in a Fusion Liquid Metal Blanket

Fluids, 2021
In blankets of a fusion power reactor, liquid metal (LM) breeders, such as pure lithium or lead-lithium alloy, circulate in complex shape blanket conduits for power conversion and tritium breeding in the presence of a strong plasma-confining magnetic ...
Sergey Smolentsev
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Exploratory tritium breeding performance study on a water cooled lead ceramic breeder blanket for EU DEMO using Serpent-2

Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2021
Innovative Water cooled Lead Ceramic Breeder (WLCB) blanket concepts are being developed at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) to explore alternative options for the European demonstration fusion power plant (DEMO).
Yudong Lu, Minyou Ye, Guangming Zhou, Francisco A. Hernández, Jaakko Leppänen, Yuan Hu   +5 more
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Experimental Thermal–Hydraulic Testing of a Mock-Up of the Fuel-Breeder Pin Concept for the EU-DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket

Journal of Nuclear Engineering, 2022
The fusion program in the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) leads the R&D of the DEMO helium-cooled pebble bed (HCPB) breeding blanket within the work package breeding blanket (WPBB) of the Eurofusion Consortium in the European Union (EU).
Ali Abou-Sena, Bradut-Eugen Ghidersa, Guangming Zhou, Joerg Rey, Francisco A. Hernández, Martin Lux, Georg Schlindwein   +6 more
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Effect of packing structure on anisotropic effective thermal conductivity of thin ceramic pebble bed

Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2021
Helium cooled solid breeder blanket as an important blanket candidate of the Tokamak fusion reactor uses ceramic pebble bed for tritium breeding. Considering the poor effective thermal conductivity of the ceramic breeder pebble bed, thin structure of ...
Shuang Wang, Shuai Wang, Bowen Wu, Yuelin Lu, Kefan Zhang, Hongli Chen   +5 more
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Conceptual design of solid-type Pb x Li y eutectic alloy breeding blanket for CFETR

Nuclear Fusion, 2023
As a key component of the Chinese Fusion Engineering and Test Reactor (CFETR), the blanket is responsible for tritium breeding, neutron shielding and energy conversion.
K. Jiang, Q. Wu, L. Chen, S. Liu
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Impact of blanket material and configuration on the size of a tokamak fusion reactor

Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2021
On the basis of the Korean fusion roadmap, conceptual design of the DEMO and R&D on the breeding blanket are ongoing. This article addresses the impact of blanket material and configuration on the tritium breeding, shielding characteristics, and ...
Bong Guen Hong
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Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Lead and Lithium in Liquid Phase [PDF]

, 2011
Pb17Li is today a reference breeder material in diverse fusion R&D programs worldwide. Extracting dynamic and structural properties of liquid LiPb mixtures via molecular dynamics simulations, represent a crucial step for multiscale modeling efforts ...
Cuesta Lopez, Santiago, Fraile García, Alberto, Perlado Martín, José Manuel   +2 more
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