L.G. Williams N. Taylor M. Lukacs
The commercial exploitation of nuclear fusion energy for electricity production is now nearer than previously imagined. Several organisations are developing fusion reactors with the aim of demonstrating electricity production in the 2030s. These timescales suggest that conceptual designs are being worked on now and the detailed design, construct…
PreprintChantal Nobs Jonathon Naish Lee Packer Mario Pillon Maurizio Angelone Stefano Loreti Paolo Del Prete Jesus Izquierdo Raul Pampin Luca Zanibellato
During ITER operations the water coolant flowing through components such as the first wall, blanket modules, divertor cassettes and vacuum vessel will become activated by high energy neutrons. Two key neutron-induced reactions will occur with oxygen in the water producing the radioactive isotopes, N-16 and N-17, which have relatively short half-liv…
Preprint PublishedL. W. Packer S. Allan S. B. Bradnam M. R. Gilbert T. Stainer
The measurement of the fusion neutron yield provides a direct relationship with fusion power and is hence an important measure of experimental performance. In pulsed neutron emission scenarios, such as those experienced in dense plasma focus devices, inertial confinement fusion and even in short-pulse tokamak experiments, considerations of the dyna…
Preprint PublishedT.L. Martin A.D. Warren D. Kumar A. Siberry R. Springell R. Holmes R. Clark L. Platts R. Burrows C. Harrington M. Gorley E. Surrey S. Rowthu P. Grundler S. Ritter
The next generations of nuclear fusion reactors, including ITER and DEMO, will consider several different cooling systems for heat dissipation, power generation and tritium breeding. This includes the water-cooled lithium-lead blanket (WCLL) design, which bears significant similarities to the water-cooled circuit in a pressurised water fission reac…
Preprint PublishedE. Organ S. Ha J. Holt G. Keech J. Keep C. Shaw A. Wilde
A study into the viability of a double null concept for DEMO has been undertaken as part of the work to address Key Design Integration Issues (KDIIs) within the DEMO powerplant. The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a double null architecture, featuring split blanket segments to enable a wider range of maintenance options…
PreprintA. Horn S. Cicero D. Andres
This paper presents an experimental and numerical study of the effect of specimen thickness on the effective notch toughness Kmatρ for cleavage fracture measured using Single Edge Notch Bend (SENB) specimens containing a Unotch instead of a fatigue pre-crack. These specimens are typically used to measure a material’s effective notch toughness Km…
Preprint PublishedLe Zai Chaoqun Zhang Yiqiang Wang Wei Guo Daniel Wellmann Xin Tong Yingtao Tian
Martensitic stainless steels have been widely used in industries due to their high strength and good corrosion resistance performance. Precipitation-hardened (PH) martensitic stainless steels are featured by their very high strength compared with other stainless steels, around 3-4 times of the strength of austenitic stainless steels such as 304 and…
PublishedC.R. Nobs L. W. Packer P. Batistoni B. Colling Z. Ghani M. Gilbert S. Loreti K. Mergia S. Mesoloras I. Michelakaki M. Pillon M. I. Savva I. E. Stamatelatos K. Triantou T. Vasilopoulou
In future fusion power plants, such as DEMO, D-T neutron emission is predicted to exceed 1×1021 neutrons/second. Accurately monitoring neutron energies and intensities will be the primary method for estimating fusion power, and calculating key parameters, including the tritium breeding ratio and nuclear heating. The Novel Neutron Det…
Preprint PublishedY. Wu B. O. Okesola J. Xu I. Korotkin A. Berado I. Corridori F. L. Pellerej di Brocchetti J. Kanczler J. Feng W. Li Y. Shi V. Farafonov Y. Wang R. F. Thompson M.-M. Titirici D. Nerukh S. Karabasov R. O. C. Oreffo J. C. Rodriguez-Cabello G. Vozzi H. S. Azevedo N. M. Pugno W. Wang A. Mata
Supramolecular chemistry offers an exciting opportunity to assemble materials with molecular precision. However, there remains an unmet need to turn molecular self-assembly into functional materials and devices. Harnessing the inherent properties of both disordered proteins and graphene oxide (GO), we report a disordered protein-GO co-assembling sy…
PublishedR. Worrall B. Colling M. R. Gilbert E. Litherland-Smith C. R. Nobs L. W. Packer C. Wilson A. Zohar
Spectrum unfolding is a key tool used together with diagnostics in the determination of nuclear fields that are associated with a range of nuclear technologies spanning fusion, fission, nuclear medicine and accelerator domains. The underlying process requires a mathematical method for solving the Fredholm integral equation of the first kind. This p…
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