The development of breeding blankets is critical for the realization of fusion energy, as they are essential in fuel production and energy generation in fusion reactors. The pre-conceptual design for the K-DEMO blanket has commenced, with the HCCP blanket concept adopted as the reference design following the KO-EU HCCP TBM project, while other potential design options are being explored. To...
Lithium aluminate (i.e., y-LiAlO2) pellets were subjected to neutron irradiation during the TMIST-3 in-reactor experiment, which was designed to evaluate tritium release rate and speciation from various pellet designs. The TMIST-3 experiment consists of a short-term and a long-term test train to study the effects of burnup, burnup rate, and time on tritium release rate and speciation. The...
The University of Bristol and Astral Systems are establishing a tritium breeding research facility in the north of Bristol. This leverages the expertise of the University of Bristol on material manufacture and instrumentation design and Astral’s revolutionary compact neutron sources.
The facility consists of a gas management system (GMS), a breeder blanket module (BBM) and a DD neutron...
Project VICE has demonstrated the manufacture of multiple morphologies of lithium metatitanate of a controlled quality at kg scale, with the potential to scale up manufacturing capabilities for future commercial fusion power stations. The project will irradiate samples of these ceramics in a controlled irradiation environment using the ISIS NILE D-T neutron source to generate tritium. An...
