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The Design of Water Loop Facility for Supporting the WCLL Breeding Blanket Technology and Safety [PDF]

Energies, 2023
The WCLL Breeding Blanket of DEMO and the Test Blanket Module (TBM) of ITER require accurate R&D activities, i.e., concept validation at a relevant scale and safety demonstrations. In view of this, the strategic objective of the Water Loop (WL) facility,
Alessandra Vannoni, Pietro Arena, Bruno Gonfiotti, Marica Eboli, Pierdomenico Lorusso, Amelia Tincani, Nicolò Badodi, Antonio Cammi, Fabio Giannetti, Cristiano Ciurluini, Nicola Forgione, Francesco Galleni, Ilenia Catanzaro, Eugenio Vallone, Pietro Alessandro Di Maio, Pietro Agostini, Alessandro Del Nevo   +16 more
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Neutronic Activity for Development of the Promising Alternative Water-Cooled DEMO Concepts [PDF]

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 [PDF]

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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Exploratory Thermo-Mechanical Assessment of the Bottom Cap Region of the EU DEMO Water-Cooled Lead Lithium Central Outboard Blanket Segment [PDF]

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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CFD Analysis and Optimization of the DEMO WCLL Central Outboard Segment Bottom-Cap Elementary Cell [PDF]

Journal of Nuclear Engineering, 2022
In the design of magnetic confinement nuclear fusion power plants, the breeding blanket (BB) plays a crucial role since it must fulfil key functions such as tritium breeding, radiation-shielding, and removal of the heat power generated by the plasma. The
Lorenzo Melchiorri, Pietro Arena, Fabio Giannetti, Simone Siriano, Alessandro Tassone   +4 more
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Advances, Challenges, and Future Perspectives of Microwave Reflectometry for Plasma Position and Shape Control on Future Nuclear Fusion Devices. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2023
Providing energy from fusion and finding ways to scale up the fusion process to commercial proportions in an efficient, economical, and environmentally benign way is one of the grand challenges for engineering. Controlling the burning plasma in real-time
Gonçalves B, Varela P, Silva A, Silva F, Santos J, Ricardo E, Vale A, Luís R, Nietiadi Y, Malaquias A, Belo J, Dias J, Ferreira J, Franke T, Biel W, Heuraux S, Ribeiro T, De Masi G, Tudisco O, Cavazzana R, Marchiori G, D'Arcangelo O.   +21 more
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Water-cooled lead and ceramic breeder (WLCB) breeding blanket (BB) for the EU DEMO: Neutronic campaigns for T breeding optimization [PDF]

Nuclear Materials and Energy
A novel Breeding Blanket (BB) concept, the Water-cooled Lead and Ceramic Breeder (WLCB) BB, has been developed under the EUROfusion Programme to address key challenges identified during the Pre-Conceptwual Design (PCD) phase for the driver BB concepts ...
Iole Palermo, Francisco A. Hernandez, Salvatore D’Amico, Jin Hun Park, Pavel Pereslavtsev, Guangming Zhou, Iñaki Zumalde   +6 more
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Advancements in Designing the DEMO Driver Blanket System at the EU DEMO Pre-Conceptual Design Phase: Overview, Challenges and Opportunities [PDF]

Journal of Nuclear Engineering, 2023
The EU conducted the pre-conceptual design (PCD) phase of the demonstration reactor (DEMO) during 2014–2020 under the framework of the EUROfusion consortium.
Francisco A. Hernández, Pietro Arena, Lorenzo V. Boccaccini, Ion Cristescu, Alessandro Del Nevo, Pierre Sardain, Gandolfo A. Spagnuolo, Marco Utili, Alessandro Venturini, Guangming Zhou   +9 more
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European DEMO Fusion Reactor: Design and Integration of the Breeding Blanket Feeding Pipes [PDF]

Energies, 2023
This article describes the design and configuration of the DEMO Breeding Blanket (BB) feeding pipes inside the upper port. As large BB segments require periodic replacement via the upper vertical ports, the space inside the upper port needs to be ...
Rocco Mozzillo, Christian Vorpahl, Christian Bachmann, Francisco A. Hernández, Alessandro Del Nevo   +4 more
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Breeding blanket mock-up testing in IFMIF-DONES [PDF]

Nuclear Fusion
The fusion community is looking for solutions to qualify the breeding blankets (BB) before their final testing in DEMO. Thus, ambitious and attractive proposals, like the Volumetric Neutron Source, are being explored.
D. Rapisarda, P. Arena, F. Arranz, B. Brañas, F. Mota, M.I. Ortiz, A. Serikov, G. Zhou   +7 more
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