Design and Integration of the EU-DEMO Water-Cooled Lead Lithium Breeding Blanket
Energies, 2023 The water-cooled lead lithium breeding blanket (WCLL BB) is one of two BB candidate concepts to be chosen as the driver blanket of the EU-DEMO fusion reactor.
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Energies, 2021 The Breeding Blanket (BB) is one of the key components of the European Demonstration (EU-DEMO) fusion reactor. Its main subsystems, the Breeder Zone (BZ) and the First Wall (FW), are cooled by two independent cooling circuits, called Primary Heat ...
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Thermofluid-dynamic and thermal–structural assessment of the EU-DEMO WCLL “double bundle” Breeding Blanket concept left outboard segment [PDF]
Fusion Engineering and DesignAs part of the activities performed by the DEMO Central Team (DCT) to study alternative configurations of the Water-Cooled Lead Lithium (WCLL) Breeding Blanket (BB), to overcome the open issues that emerged at the end of the Pre-Conceptual Design phase ...
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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 ...
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Recent Progress in the WCLL Breeding Blanket Design for the DEMO Fusion Reactor
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2018 The water-cooled lithium-lead (PbLi) breeding blanket is one of the candidate systems considered for the implementation in the European Demonstration Power Plant (DEMO) nuclear fusion reactor. This concept employs PbLi liquid metal as tritium breeder and
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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 EnergyA 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 ...
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Assessment of DEMO WCLL breeding blanket primary heat transfer system isolation valve absorbed doses due to activated water [PDF]
, 2020 Within the framework of the activities foreseen by the EUROfusion action on the cooling water activation assessment for a DEMO reactor equipped with a Water Cooled Lithium Lead Breeding Blanket (WCLL BB), the University of Palermo is involved in the ...
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DEMO WCLL breeding zone cooling system design: Analysis and discussion [PDF]
Fusion engineering and design, 2019 The Water-Cooled Lithium-Lead (WCLL) Breeding Blanket (BB) is a key component in charge of ensuring Tritium self-sufficiency, shielding the Vacuum Vessel and removing the generated power of DEMO reactor.
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W-HYDRA: a new experimental platform for the Water-Cooled Lead Lithium Breeding Blanket
Nuclear FusionIn the framework of the activities coordinated by the EUROfusion consortium, the Water thermal-HYDRAulic (W-HYDRA) experimental platform is being built at the ENEA Brasimone Research Centre in order to support the development of the Water-Cooled Lead ...
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Influence of hydrogen trapping on WCLL breeding blanket performances
Nuclear Fusion, 2021 Tritium transport simulations in Water-Cooled Lithium Lead (WCLL) breeding blankets have been performed with FESTIM. Fluid dynamics and heat transfer were coupled to evaluate how temperature and LiPb velocity fields affect Tritium transport. The 2D WCLL model consisted of tungsten, EUROFER and liquid LiPb. Tritium inventories and permeation fluxes have
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