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

LIBRTI Conference on Breeder Blanket Technology

from Tuesday, February 3, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, February 5, 2026 (6:50 PM)

Monday, February 2, 2026
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

8:15 AM Registration

8:15 AM - 9:20 AM
Room: JALT
9:30 AM Session 1-1
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: JALT
Contributions

9:30 AM LIBRTI: Plugging a key technology gap in fusion engineering ecosystems - Amanda Quadling (UKAEA)

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

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

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

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

1:35 PM Progress of Breeding Blanket Technology Development in Korea - Mu-Young Ahn (Korea Institute of Fusion Energy)

2:05 PM Lithium Aluminate Pellet Irradiation Experiment - Walter Luscher (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

2:35 PM Tritium breeding capabilities & progress at the tritium breeding research facilities by the University of Bristol & Astral Systems - Hugo Dominguez-andrade (University of Bristol)

3:05 PM Validation In Ceramics Experiments (Project VICE) – Project progress and outcomes so far - Guy Anderson
3:35 PM Break - ZETA
Break - ZETA
3:35 PM - 3:55 PM
Room: JALT
3:55 PM Session 1-4
3:55 PM - 5:25 PM
Room: JALT
Contributions

3:55 PM Towards Scalable Digital Engineering Experiences for LIBRTI through NVIDIA Omniverse - Nitesh Bhatia (UK Atomic Energy Authority)

4:25 PM 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)

4:55 PM The Effect of Ion Irradiation and High Temperatures on the Highly Lithiated Octalithium Ceramics - Pedr Charlesworth (University of Oxford)
5:25 PM Evening reception

5:25 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: JALT
Wednesday, February 4, 2026

8:15 AM Arrival

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: JALT
9:15 AM Session 2-5
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: JALT
Contributions

9:15 AM The IFMIF-DONES Test Blanket Units - Fernando Arranz (CIEMAT)

9:45 AM An Experimental Life: Designing with a view on flexibility & safety - Rob Bamber (UKAEA)

10:15 AM 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 AM Break
Break
10:45 AM - 11:05 AM
Room: JALT
11:05 AM Session 2-6
11:05 AM - 12:35 PM
Room: JALT
Contributions

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

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

12:05 PM Overview of the TRIBAL project and current status - Ilka Schmueser (University of Edinburgh)
12:35 PM Lunch & Posters
Lunch & Posters
12:35 PM - 1:50 PM
1:50 PM Session 2-7
1:50 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: JALT
Contributions

1:50 PM Validating multi-occupancy diffusion-retention equations for hydrogen in defected metals using multiscale modelling - Daniel Mason (UKAEA)

2:20 PM Flowing breeder LIBRTI experiments – concept design and stakeholder engagement - Eduardo Garciadiego-Ortega (UKAEA)

2:50 PM The Fusion Blanket Programme at Kyoto Fusioneering - Colin Baus (Kyoto Fusioneering)

3:20 PM UKAEA’s Programme for Breeding Blanket Design and Validation through Contributions to EUROfusion’s WPBB - David Horsley
3:50 PM Break
Break
3:50 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: JALT
4:10 PM Session 2-8
4:10 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: JALT
Contributions

4:10 PM An Integrated Multi-physics Platform for the LIBRTI Facility - Helen Brooks (Advanced Engineering Simulation)

4:40 PM Uncertainty and multiphysics for predictive breeder blanket modelling - Cillian Cockrell (Bangor University)

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

8:15 AM Arrival

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: JALT
9:15 AM Session 3-9
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: JALT
Contributions

9:15 AM Current Status and Future Plans for US Tritium Production - David Senor (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

9:45 AM 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 AM Synergies of the LIBRTI platform to support nuclear data and radiation testing - Andrew Simons (AWE)
10:45 AM Break
Break
10:45 AM - 11:05 AM
Room: JALT
11:05 AM Session 3-10
11:05 AM - 12:35 PM
Room: JALT
Contributions

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

11:35 AM 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 PM Digital Twin Development for Breeder Blanket Systems: Bridging Physics and Engineering - Zinnia Parker (Amentum)
12:35 PM Lunch & Posters
Lunch & Posters
12:35 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Session 3-11
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: JALT
Contributions

1:30 PM Tritium Breeding Testing with an Intense DT Neutron Source - Gabriel Becerra (SHINE Technologies)

2:00 PM 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)

2:30 PM Tritium breeding and neutronics in the FLARE reactor natural-lithium blanket - Christian Bradley (First Light Fusion)

3:00 PM Tritium breeding landscapes: production and benchmarking - Jean-Christophe Sublet (UKAEA)
3:30 PM Break
Break
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: JALT
3:50 PM Session 3-12
3:50 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: JALT
Contributions

3:50 PM A Machine Learning approach to Breeder Blanket optimisation for Fusion Tokamaks - Adam Barker (University of Manchester)

4:20 PM Develop a small solid lithium ceramic breeder with in-line tritium detection capability for calibrated neutron sources - Chengwei Zang (University of Birmingham)

4:50 PM Systematic development of breeder blankets using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and a new systems-simulation library - James Bailey

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