Water-Cooled Lithium-Lead Blanket Design Studies for DEMO Reactor: Definition and Recent Developments of the Box-Shaped Concept
- 1 May 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Fusion Technology
- Vol. 21 (3P2B) , 2081-2088
- https://doi.org/10.13182/fst92-a30028
Abstract
Within the framework of the European DEMO blanket study programme, this paper describes the design work performed on the “box-shaped” concept for water-cooled Pb-17Li blankets in the past two years. The first part of the paper describes the general design, and the thermo-mechanical and neutronical analyses of the main segment structure leading to the optimization of the thickness of the various component. The second part describes specific analysis of particular segment regions, like water-and Pb-17Li-headers, box bottom and support, which have required detailed design development. All results indicate that the “box-shaped” concept is a very promising candidate for DEMO reactor blankets.Keywords
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