Overview of the DEMO staged design approach in Europe

G Federici, C Bachmann, L Barucca, C Baylard… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes the status of the pre-conceptual design activities in Europe to advance
the technical basis of the design of a DEMOnstration Fusion Power Plant (DEMO) to come in …

[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 …

Managing the heat: in-vessel components

J Cane, A Barth, J Farrington… - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) programme aims to deliver a first-of-a-
kind fusion prototype powerplant (SPP). The SPP plasma places extreme heat, particle and …

Advancements in the helium-cooled pebble bed breeding blanket for the EU DEMO: holistic design approach and lessons learned

FA Hernández, P Pereslavtsev, G Zhou… - Fusion Science and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The helium-cooled pebble bed (HCPB) blanket is one of the two concepts proposed as a
driver blanket for the European Union Demonstration Fusion Power Reactor (EU DEMO). In …

An enhanced, near-term HCPB design as driver blanket for the EU DEMO

FA Hernandez, P Pereslavtsev, G Zhou… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Helium Cooled Pebble Bed (HCPB) breeding blanket is a candidate as driver
blanket for the EU DEMO. The reference design of the HCPB is based on a cooling plate …

Progress in EU Breeding Blanket design and integration

F Cismondi, LV Boccaccini, G Aiello, J Aubert… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2018 - Elsevier
In Europe (EU), in the frame of the EUROfusion consortium activities, four Breeding Blanket
(BB) concepts are being developed with the aim of fulfilling the performances required by a …

DEMO physics challenges beyond ITER

M Siccinio, W Biel, M Cavedon, E Fable… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2020 - Elsevier
For electricity producing tokamak fusion reactors like EU-DEMO, it is prudent to choose a
plasma scenario close to the ITER baseline, where the largest amount of experimental …

[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 …

Figure of merit for divertor protection in the preliminary design of the EU-DEMO reactor

M Siccinio, G Federici, R Kembleton, H Lux… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper discusses the criteria to be used in the preliminary design phases of the EU-
DEMO reactor to ensure the performance of the divertor without compromising the stability of …