Neutronics plays a vital role in the design, operation, and decommissioning of nuclear facilities, requiring accurate assessments of neutron energy distributions, activation calculations, and gamma decay fields. Transport codes, either deterministic or Monte Carlo-based, are used for these assessments. Deterministic methods are faster but less detailed, while Monte Carlo-based methods, though...
The supply of tritium fuel within a tokamak design fusion reactor remains an ongoing challenge for the developing nuclear fusion industry. Tokamak-design fusion reactors will need to be self-sufficient for the supply of tritium fuel into their fusion reaction. To satisfy this self-sufficiency criteria, numerous breeder blanket concepts for tritium generation exist, with liquid lithium and...
The development of fusion power is heavily dependent on performant breeder blankets. They are key to achieving both fuel self-sufficiency and net power for a continuously operating powerplant. Yet breeder blankets remain at a low technology readiness level, with none yet tested in an operational tokamak environment. Achieving these key blanket functions, while also withstanding multiple...
