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Liquid surfaces for fusion plasma facing components—A critical review. Part I: Physics and PSI
Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2016 This review of the potential of robust plasma facing components (PFCs) with liquid surfaces for applications in future D/T fusion device summarizes the critical issues for liquid surfaces and research being done worldwide in confinement facilities, and ...
R.E. Nygren, F.L. Tabarés
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Hydraulic Characterization of the Full Scale Mock-Up of the DEMO Divertor Outer Vertical Target
Energies, 2021 In the frame of the pre-conceptual design activities of the DEMO work package DIV-1 “Divertor Cassette Design and Integration” of the EUROfusion program, a mock-up of the divertor outer vertical target (OVT) was built, mainly in order to: (i) demonstrate
Amelia Tincani +9 more
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Nuclear Fusion, 2023 Supported by the world magnetic fusion research community, a series of International Symposia on Liquid metals Applications for fusion (ISLA) have been held biannually since 2010.
Y. Hirooka +6 more
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Journal of Nuclear Engineering, 2023 In this work we report the characterization of thin metallic coatings of interest for nuclear fusion technology through the ns double-pulse LIBS technique.
Salvatore Almaviva +3 more
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Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2023 The transition to reactor-relevant materials for the plasma facing components (PFCs) is an important and necessary step to provide a proof of principle that the stellarator concept can meet the requirements of a future fusion reactor by demonstrating ...
Dirk Naujoks +38 more
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Observations on arcing on the metal plasma-facing components in EAST
Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2023 Arcing on the plasma-facing components (PFCs) is one of the mechanisms of material erosion and impurity production in the magnetic-confinement fusion devices. EAST tokamak has been upgraded to almost full metal PFCs.
Baoguo Wang +8 more
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Modeling of liquid lithium flow in porous plasma facing material
Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2021 Flowing liquid lithium can, in principle, create a renewable surface interacting with the plasma, providing protection for the underlying solid substrate.
Andrei Khodak, Rajesh Maingi
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Modeling of COMPASS tokamak divertor liquid metal experiments
Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2020 Two small liquid metal targets based on the capillary porous structure were exposed to the divertor plasma of the tokamak COMPASS. The first target was wetted by pure lithium and the second one by a lithium-tin alloy, both releasing mainly lithium atoms (
J. Horacek +29 more
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Innovative Tungsten Coatings for an Application in Modern and Future Fusion Devices
Metals, 2023 Tungsten is foreseen presently as the plasma-facing material for divertors in fusion power plants. In order to achieve durable operation of divertors of current fusion reactors, an efficient way of maintaining the divertor functionality is needed.
Tom Keller +4 more
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Titanium and Tantalum Used as Functional Gradient Interlayer to Join Tungsten and Eurofer97
Journal of Nuclear Engineering, 2022 For the DEMO reactor, tungsten is considered as an armor material. Eurofer97 is planned to be used as a structural material for the first wall and in the divertor region, especially for the shielding liner component.
Marianne Richou +5 more
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