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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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NUCLEAR DATA SENSITIVITY/UNCERTAINTY PRE-ANALYSIS OF FNG WCLL FUSION BENCHMARK [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2021
To assure tritium self-sufficiency in future fusion reactors such as DEMO the accuracy of TRP calculations has to be demonstrated within the design uncertainties.
Kodeli Ivan A., Angelone Maurizio, Flamini Davide   +2 more
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Analysis of the Thermo-Mechanical Behaviour of the EU DEMO Water-Cooled Lithium Lead Central Outboard Blanket Segment under an Optimized Thermal Field

Applied Sciences, 2022
Within the framework of the EUROfusion research activities on the DEMO Water-Cooled Lithium Lead (WCLL) Breeding Blanket (BB) design, a research study was performed to preliminarily optimize, from the thermal point of view, the WCLL Central Outboard ...
Ilenia Catanzaro, Gaetano Bongiovì, Pietro Alessandro Di Maio   +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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The DEMO Water-Cooled Lead–Lithium Breeding Blanket: Design Status at the End of the Pre-Conceptual Design Phase

Applied Sciences, 2021
The Water-Cooled Lead–Lithium Breeding Blanket (WCLL BB) is one of the two blanket concept candidates to become the driver blanket of the EU-DEMO reactor. The design was enacted with a holistic approach. The influence that neutronics, thermal-hydraulics (
Pietro Arena, Alessandro Del Nevo, Fabio Moro, Simone Noce, Rocco Mozzillo, Vito Imbriani, Fabio Giannetti, Francesco Edemetti, Antonio Froio, Laura Savoldi, Simone Siriano, Alessandro Tassone, Fernando Roca Urgorri, Pietro Alessandro Di Maio, Ilenia Catanzaro, Gaetano Bongiovì   +15 more
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Design of the Test Section for the Experimental Validation of Antipermeation and Corrosion Barriers for WCLL BB

Applied Sciences, 2022
Tritium permeation into the Primary Heat Transfer System (PHTS) of DEMO and ITER reactors is one of the challenging issues to be solved in order to demonstrate the feasibility of nuclear fusion power plants construction.
Marco Utili, Ciro Alberghi, Luigi Candido, Fabio Di Fonzo, Francesca Papa, Alessandro Venturini   +5 more
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Thermo-Mechanical Analysis and Design Update of the Top Cap Region of the DEMO Water-Cooled Lithium Lead Central Outboard Blanket Segment

Applied Sciences, 2022
Within the framework of the EUROfusion research and development activities, the Water-Cooled Lithium Lead (WCLL) Breeding Blanket (BB) is one of the two candidates to be chosen as the driver blanket for the European DEMO nuclear fusion reactor. Hence, an
Gaetano Bongiovì, Salvatore Giambrone, Ilenia Catanzaro, Pietro Alessandro Di Maio, Pietro Arena   +4 more
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Exploratory Thermo-Mechanical Assessment of the Bottom Cap Region of the EU DEMO Water-Cooled Lead Lithium Central Outboard Blanket Segment

Applied Sciences, 2023
The Water-Cooled Lead Lithium (WCLL) Breeding Blanket (BB) is one of the two BB concept candidates to be selected as the driver blanket for the EU DEMO fusion reactor.
Gaetano Bongiovì, Ilenia Catanzaro, Pietro Alessandro Di Maio, Salvatore Giambrone, Alberto Gioè, Pietro Arena, Lorenzo Melchiorri   +6 more
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Thermomechanical and Thermofluid-Dynamic Coupled Analysis of the Top Cap Region of the Water-Cooled Lithium Lead Breeding Blanket for the EU DEMO Fusion Reactor

Energies, 2023
In the EU, the Water-Cooled Lithium Lead (WCLL) Breeding Blanket (BB) concept is one of the candidates for the design of the DEMO reactor. From the past campaign of analysis emerged that the thermal-induced stress led to the failure in the verification ...
Alberto Gioè, Gaetano Bongiovì, Ilenia Catanzaro, Pierluigi Chiovaro, Pietro Alessandro Di Maio, Salvatore Giambrone, Andrea Quartararo, Eugenio Vallone, Pietro Arena, Salvatore Basile   +9 more
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Design of a Prototypical Mock-Up for the Experimental Investigation of WCLL First-Wall Performances

Energies, 2023
A large research effort is currently ongoing within the framework of the EUROfusion consortium for the study and design of a water-cooled lithium–lead (WCLL) breeding blanket (BB).
Pietro Maccari, Pietro Arena, Ranieri Marinari, Amelia Tincani, Alessandro Del Nevo   +4 more
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