Advancements in designing the demo driver blanket system at the EU demo pre-conceptual design phase: overview, challenges and opportunities

FA Hernández, P Arena, LV Boccaccini… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The EU conducted the pre-conceptual design (PCD) phase of the demonstration reactor
(DEMO) during 2014–2020 under the framework of the EUROfusion consortium. The current …

Advances, challenges, and future perspectives of microwave reflectometry for plasma position and shape control on future nuclear fusion devices

B Gonçalves, P Varela, A Silva, F Silva, J Santos… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated design strategy for EU-DEMO first wall protection from plasma transients

F Maviglia, C Bachmann, G Federici, T Franke… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This work presents an overview of the integrated strategy developed, as part of the DEMO
Key Design Integration Issue 1 (KDII1), to protect the EU-DEMO first wall (FW) from planned …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of plasma-wall interaction and exhaust on the EU-DEMO design

F Maviglia, M Siccinio, C Bachmann, W Biel… - Nuclear materials and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the present work, the role of plasma facing components protection in driving the EU-
DEMO design will be reviewed, focusing on steady-state and, especially, on transients. This …

[HTML][HTML] Limiters for DEMO wall protection: Initial design concepts & technology options

JH You, C Bachmann, VG Belardi, M Binder… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Off-normal macroscopic plasma instabilities which possibly occur in a fusion power plant
represent the most critical operational accidents and pose a serious risk to economically …

Fusion pilot plant performance and the role of a sustained high power density tokamak

JE Menard, BA Grierson, T Brown, C Rana… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent US fusion development strategy reports all recommend that the US should pursue
innovative science and technology to enable construction of a fusion pilot plant (FPP) that …

[HTML][HTML] The transient thermal ageing of Eurofer 97 by mitigated plasma disruptions

J Hargreaves, HE Tipping, S Moore, D Kumar… - Materials & Design, 2024 - Elsevier
Plasma disruptions in a commercial-scale tokamak will impose high magnitude, short-
duration thermal loads on its plasma-facing first wall. Despite a plethora of mitigation …

3D effects on hydrogen transport in ITER-like monoblocks

R Delaporte-Mathurin, R Chochoy, J Mougenot… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
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Pressure suppression system influence on vacuum vessel thermal-hydraulics and on source term mobilization during a multiple first Wall–Blanket pipe break

M D'Onorio, G Caruso - Fusion Engineering and Design, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Being the Vacuum Vessel Pressure Suppression System (VVPSS) one of the most
important passive safety systems to be foreseen in DEMO plant, design and integration …

[HTML][HTML] Benefits and challenges of advanced divertor configurations in DEMO

R Kembleton, M Siccinio, F Maviglia… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The divertor design and configuration define the power exhaust capabilities of DEMO, and
act as a major design driver. They set a number of requirements on the tokamak layout …