Review of blanket designs for advanced fusion reactors

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 83, Issue 7-9, 2008, Pages 912-919

  Ihli, T ^a   Basu, T K ^b   Giancarli, L M ^c   Konishi, S ^d   Malang, S ^e   Najmabadi, F ^f   Nishio, S ^g   Raffray, A R ^f   Rao, C V S ^h   Sagara, A ⁱ   Wu, Y ^j  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e University of California San Diego ^*  (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^h INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA RESEARCH   (India)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR FUSION SCIENCE   (Japan)

^j INSTITUTE OF PLASMA PHYSICS   (China)

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Author keywords

Advanced blanket; DCLL; EVOLVE; Flibe; HCPB; Helium; Lead lithium; Review; SCLL

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE EARTH METALS; BERYLLIUM; BREEDER REACTORS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; HELIUM; HYDROGEN; INERT GASES; LIQUID METALS; LIQUIDS; LITHIUM; METAL ANALYSIS;

ADVANCED BLANKET; DCLL; EVOLVE; FLIBE; HCPB; SCLL;

FUSION REACTORS;

EID: 57049161411     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2008.07.039     Document Type: Article

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