Tritium breeder blankets design and technologies in Europe: Development status of ITER Test Blanket Modules, test & qualification strategy and roadmap towards DEMO

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 85, Issue 10-12, 2010, Pages 2340-2347

  Poitevin, Y ^a   Boccaccini, L V ^b   Zmitko, M ^a   Ricapito, I ^a   Salavy, J F ^c   Diegele, E ^a   Gabriel, F ^c   Magnani, E ^b   Neuberger, H ^b   Lasser R ^a   Guerrini, L ^a  

^a FUSION FOR ENERGY   (Spain)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Breeder blanket; DEMO; Design; TBM; Technology

Indexed keywords

BREEDER BLANKETS; DEMO; DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY; DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS; ITER PROJECT; LITHIUM-LEAD; NEUTRON MULTIPLIERS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PEBBLE-BED; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; ROADMAP; TBM; TEST BLANKET MODULE;

BERYLLIUM; BREEDER REACTORS; DESIGN; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; HELIUM; LEAD; LITHIUM; TECHNOLOGY; TESTING; TRITIUM;

BREEDING BLANKETS;

EID: 78649713307     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2010.09.027     Document Type: Article

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