Pure tungsten and tungsten alloys with minor alloying additions are known to be brittle at
room temperature and have high ductile-to-brittle transition temperatures (DBTT). Improving …

Tungsten materials are candidates for plasma-facing components for the International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and the DEMOnstration power plant because of their …

The interaction processes between the burning plasma and the first wall in a fusion reactor
are diverse: the first wall will be exposed to extreme thermal loads of up to several tens of …

Budget restrictions have forced the ITER Organization to reconsider the baseline divertor
strategy, in which operations would begin with carbon (C) in the high heat flux regions …

This review summarizes surface morphology changes of tungsten caused by heat and
particle loadings from edge plasmas, and their effects on enhanced erosion and material …

The findings of the EU 'Materials Assessment Group'(MAG), within the 2012 EU Fusion
Roadmap exercise, are discussed. MAG analysed the technological readiness of structural …

Refractory alloys such as tungsten and molybdenum based alloys with high strength,
thermal/electrical conductivity, low coefficient of thermal expansion and excellent creep …

Prediction of material performance in fusion reactor environments relies on computational
modelling, and will continue to do so until the first generation of fusion power plants come on …

The development of appropriate materials for fusion reactors that can sustain high neutron
fluence at elevated temperatures remains a great challenge. Tungsten is one of the …

For DEMO and beyond, liquid metal plasma-facing components are considered due to their
resilience to erosion through flowed replacement, potential for cooling beyond conduction …