James Roberts Ross MacDonald Alex Russell James Redman Ian Bunce Terry O’Sullivan Ethan Flynn
In future demonstration fusion power plants, plasma facing components will face high steady state and ultra-high transient heat loads from the plasma. Introducing low thermal conductivity features to the component can reduce the peak temperatures seen by the coolant pipe, but at the trade-off of a loss of steady-state performance. Producing low-…
PreprintA. Kirschner S.S. Henderson S. Brezinsek J. Romazanov M. Kovari C. Baumann Ch. Linsmeier E. Flynn J. Hess R.T. Osawa S.L. Newton D. Moulton
The tungsten erosion within STEP assuming tungsten main wall and tungsten divertor has been estimated with ERO at the inner and outer divertor, at the inner and outer midplane and at the outboard baffle entrance. Plasma parameters are based on SOLPS simulations applying argon puffing for edge cooling. The modelled peak gross erosion is highest with…
PreprintD. McGarrigle E. Flynn C. Kennedy A. Loving S. Budden
This paper reports on a study of the existing or proposed maintenance arm systems with similar functions and structure to that of the proposed DEMO Multi-Purpose Deployer (MPD).The current MPD design iteration consists of a boom deployment system that is ~30m long and can support a payload of ~1000kg, while still being able to access the DEMO va…
Preprint PublishedE. Flynn P. Cooper O. Crofts A. Loving Z. Vizvary A. Wilde
DEMO is a key part of the EU fusion roadmap, where the programme is reaching the end of the pre-conceptual phase with a gate review in 2020. As part of the work to complete this phase, eight Key Design Integration Issues (KDII’s) have been identified as critical to the programme. Within KDII#1 (wall protection limiters) the feasibility of the Inn…
Preprint PublishedJ. Keep T. Berry S. Budden B. Chuilon B. Colling E. Flynn S. Ha C. Jackson G. Keech W. Leong G. Mathew E. Organ C. Shaw A. Wilde
DEMO is a key part of the EU fusion roadmap, and the programme reaches the end of the pre-conceptual phase with a gate review in 2020. As part of the work to complete this phase, eight Key Design Integration Issues (KDII’s) have been identified as critical to the programme. Two of these KDII’s identified a requirement for a more detailed archit…
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