ABSTRACT DEMO will be a fusion power plant demonstrating the integration into the grid
architecture of an electric utility grid. The design of the power conversion chain is of …

Abstract The Pre-Concept Design (PCD) of the Balance of Plant (BoP) systems of the EU-
DEMO power plant is described in this paper for both breeding blanket (BB) concepts under …

Currently, for the EU DEMO, two Breeding Blankets (BBs) have been selected as potential
candidates for the integration in the reactor. They are the Water Cooled Lithium Lead and …

Recent R&D activities in nuclear fusion have identified the DEMO reactor as the ITER
successor, aiming at demonstrating the technical feasibility of fusion plants, along with their …

Fusion could be a part of future decarbonized electricity systems, but it will need to compete
with other technologies. In particular, pulsed tokamak plants have a unique operational …

Fusion is a candidate base-load and load-following energy source for the future carbon-free
energy mix, and stellarators are promising magnetic fusion reactors. Unlike all other fusion …

Plasma facing components for energy conversion in future nuclear fusion reactors require a
broad variety of different fabrication processes. We present, along a series of studies, the …

The Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) prototype powerplant (SPP) will be a
first-of-a-kind powerplant—its prime objective is to export electrical power, to the national …

Piping systems that transport coolant and tritium breeding fluid are naturally an essential
part of the support system of nuclear fusion power plants. Following a campaign of …

The EU-DEMO (referred to as DEMO) tokamak complex currently consists of three buildings,
like in ITER: the tokamak building, the tritium building and the diagnostics building. The …