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HCCR breeding blankets optimization by changing neutronic constrictions
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2021 The neutronic analysis of Helium Cooled Ceramic Reflector (HCCR) breeding blankets has been performed using the 3D Monte Carlo code MCNPX and ENDF nuclear data library.
R. Zadfathollah Seighalani +2 more
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MHD R&D Activities for Liquid Metal Blankets [PDF]
Energies, 2021 According to the most recently revised European design strategy for DEMO breeding blankets, mature concepts have been identified that require a reduced technological extrapolation towards DEMO and will be tested in ITER. In order to optimize and finalize
Chiara Mistrangelo +8 more
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Flow measurement in high-temperature liquid metals and molten salts: principles, recent advances, and deployment challenges [PDF]
Frontiers in ChemistryNext-generation energy systems—including sodium- and lead-cooled fast reactors, molten salt reactors, concentrating solar power, and fusion breeding blankets—rely on high-temperature liquid metals and molten salts operating at approximately 400 °C–700 °C,
Geon Her +3 more
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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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Technological Processes for Steel Applications in Nuclear Fusion
Applied Sciences, 2021 Plasma facing components for energy conversion in future nuclear fusion reactors require a broad variety of different fabrication processes. We present, along a series of studies, the general effects and the mutual impact of these processes on the ...
Michael Rieth +15 more
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Multiphysics Optimization for First Wall Design Enhancement in Water-Cooled Breeding Blankets
Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2021 The commercial feasibility of the first fusion power plant generation adopting D-T plasma is strongly dependent upon the self-sustainability in terms of tritium fuelling. Within such a kind of reactor, the component selected to house the tritium breeding
Ruggero Forte +3 more
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Energies, 2021 Liquid metal breeding blankets are extensively studied in nuclear fusion. In the main proposed systems, the Water Cooled Lithium Lead (WCLL) and the Dual Coolant Lithium Lead (DCLL), the liquid metal flows under an intense transverse magnetic field, for ...
Ciro Alberghi +4 more
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Measurement of thermal expansion anisotropy in Be12Ti and Be12V
Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2023 Be12Ti and Be12V are promising candidates for neutron multipliers in solid breeding blankets, which is used in a bulk form to achieve the fuel tritium self-sufficiency.
Keisuke Mukai +2 more
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Energies, 2020 The China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) is a tokamak device to validate and demonstrate fusion engineering technology. In CFETR, the breeding blanket is a vital important component that is closely related to the performance and safety of the ...
Tao Dai +4 more
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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 +5 more
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