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Aim of the programme - to bridge the gap between scientific experiment and self-sustaining future fusion power plants.
LIBRTI aims to foster world-leading innovation for fusion power plant fuel cycle development, while stimulating industry capability and capacity. The programme has been designed to help industry achieve demonstrations of controlled tritium breeding; a first step towards a predictable, controllable way of generating the fuel required within a self-sustaining fusion fuel cycle.
LIBRTI will deliver a first-of-a-kind testbed facility on the Culham Campus, containing a neutron source, which will produce neutrons to react with the lithium contained in different types of prototype breeder blankets to produce tritium. The facility will include space to assemble and dissemble the large-scale tritium breeding experiments, and to capture the knowledge gained from these experiments.
In addition, the programme will establish a digital simulation capability and skills to model solid, liquid and molten salt breeder technologies, to predict tritium breeding performance, analyse experimental results and provide guidance for future design development of breeder blankets ideas. This will be an in-silico replication of the physical experiment utilising the multiphysics models of tritium breeding, which will be a stepping stone for industry towards the qualification of breeders.
| Speaker affiliation | UKAEA |
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