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Methodologies to assess uncertainties in the tritium production within lithium breeding blankets

, 2012
Tritium would have to be produced and controlled in the future fusion facilities. The capture of fusion neutrons by lithium has been proposed as a possible tritium reproduction reaction and lithium blankets for tritium breeding based on this reaction ...
Díez, C. J., Salvador, J., Cabellos, O.
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Neutronic implications of lead-lithium blankets [PDF]

, 1982
Lead-lithium alloys have been proposed for use in several conceptual blanket designs for both inertial and magnetic confinement fusion reactors.
Meier, W. R.
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A parameter study of time-varying tritium production in solid-type breeder blankets

, 2016
Tritium production is of critical importance to prospective DT fusion power plants. Lithium ceramic and beryllium based solid-type breeder blankets are an option for supplying the tritium required to sustain the DT plasma.
Morgan, L.W.G., Lilley, S., Packer, L.W., McMillan, J., Kovari, M., Shimwell, J., Zheng, S.   +6 more
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Directed evolution of enzymes at the crossroads of tradition and innovation

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
An iterative cycle of data‐driven enzyme optimization comprising four stages: genetic diversification of a template enzyme, expression of protein variants, high‐throughput evaluation, and machine‐learning‐guided redesign of the next variant library.
Maria Tomkova, Andrej Mirossay, Erik Sedlak   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accelerating the engineering design of breeder blankets with parametric optimisation and sequential learning

Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering
The competing requirements of fusion breeder blankets and the high dimensionality of their design space necessitate a systematic treatment to map the variations in performance against given objective metrics and to understand the operational envelope. In
Luke Humphrey, Helen Brooks, Siddharth Mungale, Andrew Davis, David Foster   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Guiding AlphaFold to predict how Munc13‐1 opens Syntaxin‐1

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
The syntaxin‐1 Habc‐domain (orange), linker (pink) and SNARE motif (yellow) form a closed conformation that binds to Munc18‐1 (violet) and is opened by the Munc13‐1 MUN domain (cyan) to form the SNARE complex that triggers neurotransmitter release.
Madhurima Chattopadhyay, Junjie Xu, Josep Rizo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exhaust assessment of a European Volumetric Neutron Source (EU-VNS) using SOLPS-ITER

Nuclear Materials and Energy
EUROfusion considers a volumetric neutron source (EU-VNS) to generate a neutron wall load of about 0.5MW/m2 to qualify tritium breeding blankets early in support of EU-DEMO that mitigates the risk of a late testing for required nuclear technology.
S. Wiesen, Ch. Bachmann, M. Siccinio, J. Boscary, C. Bourdelle, M. Coleman, G. Federici, F. Maviglia, R. Neu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Maintainability of the helical reactor FFHR-c1 equipped with the liquid metal divertor and cartridge-type blankets

, 2018
0000-0002-7901-6077The maintenance scheme in the compact helical fusion reactor, FFHR-c1, equipped with the liquid metal divertor, REVOLVER-D (Reactor-oriented Effectively VOLumetric VERtical Divertor) and the cartridge-type molten salt blankets ...
Junichi Miyazawa, GOTO, Takuya, FFHR, Design Group, MIYAZAWA, Jun-ichi, Ryuichi Sakamoto, TAMURA, Hitoshi, Teruya Tanaka, SAKAMOTO, Ryuichi, Akio Sagara, Ohgo, Takeru, Takeru Ohgo, Suguru Masuzaki, SAGARA, Akio, MIYAZAWA, Junichi, Tananori Murase, YANAGI, Nagato, MURASE, Takanori, Hitoshi Tamura, TANAKA, Teruya, Takuya Goto, Nagato Yanagi, MASUZAKI, Suguru   +21 more
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How phagocytic cells kill bacteria: Lessons from a professional killer

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
How phagocytic cells ingest and kill bacteria has been studied for more than a century, but many questions remain unanswered. The study of the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum brings new answers, and new questions. Professional phagocytic cells such as neutrophils and macrophages, as well as free‐living soil amoebae like Dictyostelium discoideum, employ
Otmane Lamrabet, Pierre Cosson
wiley   +1 more source

Fatigue lifetime prediction and reliability assessment for fusion blankets under pulsed operational loading

Nuclear Fusion
The breeding blanket is a critical component of magnetic confinement fusion reactors. The reliability, availability, maintainability, and inspectability (RAMI) of the blanket has been recognized as a major challenge on the pathway to commercial fusion ...
Qingzhu Liang, Xuebin Ma, Xiaoman Cheng, Lei Chen, Songlin Liu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source