Breeding blanket designs considered for DEMO include not only materials but also technologies, whose behaviour under fusion-like conditions has not yet been tested. Therefore, it is urgent to evaluate these blankets in relevant environments, with emphasis on significant radiation levels. Looking for solutions to qualify and validate the breeding blankets, IFMIF-DONES has launched a new...
LIBRTI aims to drive world-leading innovation in the fusion fuel cycle by delivering a facility with a 14 MeV Deuterium-Tritium (DT) neutron source to support scientific work aimed at developing a better understanding of neutron and tritium transport at reactor scale. The facility will support experiments based on tritium breeder blanket concepts proposed by the fusion community, including...
As the UK nuclear ‘renaissance’ continues apace, steels continue to demonstrate incredible versatility and performance, particularly as we consider next-generation structural materials to use in the most demanding environments ever developed. Proposed commercial fusion powerplants contain plasmas ten times hotter than the sun, with materials witnessing extreme levels of radiation damage. This...
