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Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
Who would have thought, just a few years ago, that we would see so many long-standing barriers to new nuclear development falling like dominoes? Public opinion, policy, regulatory reform, finance and investment, design maturity, nuclear fuel enrichment, and fuel fabrication capacity have all advanced with remarkable speed in the United States.
Conventional wisdom holds that the most effective way to scale up the nuclear supply chain is to do so strategically, matching investments to the needs of reactor developers.
M. R. Gilbert, S. Zheng, R. Kemp, L. W. Packer, S. L. Dudarev, J.-Ch. Sublet
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 9-17
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-751
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A key goal for fusion materials modelling research is the development of predictive simulation models and capabilities to assess material performance under the neutron irradiation conditions expected in near-plasma regions of fusion reactor tokamaks. This paper presents computational results from the modelling of neutron fields in the latest concepts for the next-step demonstration fusion reactor, DEMO. In particular, the variation in neutron exposure as a function of coolant choice and tritium-breeding blanket concept are described, and the calculated neutron spectra are then applied to predict damage rates, helium production rates, and helium-induced grain-boundary embrittlement lifetimes—updating previous estimates derived using an earlier DEMO model.