Name: LIBRTI Conference on Breeder Blanket Technology
Start: 2026-02-03T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-05T18:50:00+00:00
Location: Culham Campus

Monday 2 February 2026
Tuesday 3 February 2026

08:15 Registration

08:15 - 09:20
Room: JALT
09:30 Session 1-1
09:30 - 10:30
Room: JALT
Contributions

09:30 LIBRTI: Plugging a key technology gap in fusion engineering ecosystems - Amanda Quadling (UKAEA)

10:00 Design Exploration and Technology Development of the Step Li2O Ceramic Breeder Blanket - Ethan Flynn (UKIFS)
10:30 Break - ZETA
Break - ZETA
10:30 - 10:50
Room: JALT
10:50 Session 1-2
10:50 - 12:20
Room: JALT
Contributions

10:50 Neutron irradiation experiments for solid and liquid breeders - Chase Taylor (Idaho National Laboratory)

11:20 The Tritium Breeder (TriBreed) demonstrator - Richard Smith (Lancaster University)

11:50 Correlation of Scaled Breeder Mock-ups toFull-Scale Using Multiphysics - Alexandre Sureda Croguennoc (IDOM UK Ltd)
12:20 Lunch & Posters
Lunch & Posters
12:20 - 13:35
13:35 Session 1-3
13:35 - 15:35
Room: JALT
Contributions

13:35 Progress of Breeding Blanket Technology Development in Korea - Mu-Young Ahn (Korea Institute of Fusion Energy)

14:05 Lithium Aluminate Pellet Irradiation Experiment - Walter Luscher (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

14:35 Tritium breeding capabilities & progress at the tritium breeding research facilities by the University of Bristol & Astral Systems - Hugo Dominguez-andrade (University of Bristol)

15:05 Validation In Ceramics Experiments (Project VICE) – Project progress and outcomes so far - Guy Anderson
15:35 Break - ZETA
Break - ZETA
15:35 - 15:55
Room: JALT
15:55 Session 1-4
15:55 - 17:25
Room: JALT
Contributions

15:55 Towards Scalable Digital Engineering Experiences for LIBRTI through NVIDIA Omniverse - Nitesh Bhatia (UK Atomic Energy Authority)

16:25 The development and implementation of a tritium inventory model in a digital twin for the LIBRTI project - Lee Margetts (The University of Manchester) Philip Edmondson (The University of Manchester)

16:55 The Effect of Ion Irradiation and High Temperatures on the Highly Lithiated Octalithium Ceramics - Pedr Charlesworth (University of Oxford)
17:25 Evening reception

17:25 - 19:00
Room: JALT
Wednesday 4 February 2026

08:15 Arrival

08:15 - 09:15
Room: JALT
09:15 Session 2-5
09:15 - 10:45
Room: JALT
Contributions

09:15 The IFMIF-DONES Test Blanket Units - Fernando Arranz (CIEMAT)

09:45 An Experimental Life: Designing with a view on flexibility & safety - Rob Bamber (UKAEA)

10:15 Increasing the heat: Developing the next-generation of high-temperature steels to deliver commercial fusion energy - David Bowden (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)
10:45 Break
Break
10:45 - 11:05
Room: JALT
11:05 Session 2-6
11:05 - 12:35
Room: JALT
Contributions

11:05 CFS Experimental Plans at LIBRTI to De-Risk the ARC Blanket - Caroline Sorensen Barthel (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)

11:35 Experiences from tritium breeding experiments in molten salts - Kevin Woller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

12:05 Overview of the TRIBAL project and current status - Ilka Schmueser (University of Edinburgh)
12:35 Lunch & Posters
Lunch & Posters
12:35 - 13:50
13:50 Session 2-7
13:50 - 15:50
Room: JALT
Contributions

13:50 Validating multi-occupancy diffusion-retention equations for hydrogen in defected metals using multiscale modelling - Daniel Mason (UKAEA)

14:20 Flowing breeder LIBRTI experiments – concept design and stakeholder engagement - Eduardo Garciadiego-Ortega (UKAEA)

14:50 The Fusion Blanket Programme at Kyoto Fusioneering - Colin Baus (Kyoto Fusioneering)

15:20 UKAEA’s Programme for Breeding Blanket Design and Validation through Contributions to EUROfusion’s WPBB - David Horsley
15:50 Break
Break
15:50 - 16:10
Room: JALT
16:10 Session 2-8
16:10 - 17:40
Room: JALT
Contributions

16:10 An Integrated Multi-physics Platform for the LIBRTI Facility - Helen Brooks (Advanced Engineering Simulation)

16:40 Uncertainty and multiphysics for predictive breeder blanket modelling - Cillian Cockrell (Bangor University)

17:10 Uncertainty Quantification of breeder blankets using MOOSE - Isaac Santos (Centre for Modelling and Simulation)
Thursday 5 February 2026

08:15 Arrival

08:15 - 09:15
Room: JALT
09:15 Session 3-9
09:15 - 10:45
Room: JALT
Contributions

09:15 Current Status and Future Plans for US Tritium Production - David Senor (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

09:45 Experimental Investigation of Tritium Release Behavior from Li2TiO3 Pebbles Irradiated by D-T Neutron Source - Yi-Hyun PARK (Korea Institute of Fusion Energy)

10:15 Synergies of the LIBRTI platform to support nuclear data and radiation testing - Andrew Simons (AWE)
10:45 Break
Break
10:45 - 11:05
Room: JALT
11:05 Session 3-10
11:05 - 12:35
Room: JALT
Contributions

11:05 ST-E1 Dual-Cooled and Self-Cooled Blanket Concepts - Anatoliy Vorobev (Tokamak Energy)

11:35 Machine-learning interatomic potential development for an atomistic study of tritium diffusion in liquid lithium and lithium-vanadium interfaces - Prashanth Srinivasan (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)

12:05 Digital Twin Development for Breeder Blanket Systems: Bridging Physics and Engineering - Zinnia Parker (Amentum)
12:35 Lunch & Posters
Lunch & Posters
12:35 - 13:30
13:30 Session 3-11
13:30 - 15:30
Room: JALT
Contributions

13:30 Tritium Breeding Testing with an Intense DT Neutron Source - Gabriel Becerra (SHINE Technologies)

14:00 TRItium Permeation Real-Time In-line Sensor for Monitoring (TRI-PRISM): Development of hydrogen isotope permeation sensors for tritium monitoring in LIBRTI and fusion liquid metal breeder systems - Luigi Candido (Kyoto Fusioneering UK Ltd)

14:30 Tritium breeding and neutronics in the FLARE reactor natural-lithium blanket - Christian Bradley (First Light Fusion)

15:00 Tritium breeding landscapes: production and benchmarking - Jean-Christophe Sublet (UKAEA)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 15:50
Room: JALT
15:50 Session 3-12
15:50 - 17:20
Room: JALT
Contributions

15:50 A Machine Learning approach to Breeder Blanket optimisation for Fusion Tokamaks - Adam Barker (University of Manchester)

16:20 Develop a small solid lithium ceramic breeder with in-line tritium detection capability for calibrated neutron sources - Chengwei Zang (University of Birmingham)

16:50 Systematic development of breeder blankets using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and a new systems-simulation library - James Bailey