In a power plant scale fusion reactor, a huge amount of thermal power produced by the
fusion reaction and external heating must be exhausted through the narrow area of the …

The power exhaust concept and an appropriate divertor design are common critical issues
for tokamak DEMO design activities which have been carried out in Europe, Japan, China …

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 …

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 …

Abstract The European Research Roadmap to the Realisation of Fusion Energy foresees
that the DEMO reactor is going to succeed ITER in the pathway towards the exploitation of …

Divertor targets of a nuclear fusion reactor are exposed to harsh loading environments
comprising high heat flux, varying stresses and neutron irradiation. For a robust design, the …

A challenging issue for the magnetic fusion concept of generating nuclear power is the
performance of plasma-facing components, particularly in the divertor within the fusion …

In the context of the activities of the EUROfusion action, the University of Palermo has
carried out a research campaign to evaluate the thermal-hydraulic performance of the EU …

Until 2019, the thermo-hydraulic development of the EU-DEMO divertor was based on the
“double-circuit” concept, in which two independent cooling circuits served by two different …

The anticipated heat flux limit of the European DEMO first wall is∼ 1− 2 MW/m 2. During
transient and off normal events, the heat load deposited on the wall would be much larger …