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G7 pledges support for nuclear at Italy meeting
The Group of Seven (G7) recommitted its support for nuclear energy in the countries that opt to use it at a Ministerial Meeting on Climate in Italy last month.
In a statement following the April meeting, the group committed to support multilateral efforts to strengthen the resilience of nuclear supply chains, referencing the goal set by 25 countries during last year’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai to triple global nuclear generating capacity by 2050.
Sümer Sahin, Ralph W. Moir, Abdulmuttalip ŞAHINASLAN, Haci Mehmet ŞAHIN
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1027-1035
Fusion Blanket and Shield Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963072
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Material damage through displacements per atom (DPA) and helium gas production, as well as the tritium breeding and energy absorption in an IFE (Inertial Fusion Energy) reactor chamber have been investigated with variable coolant zone thickness using different liquids. Examples are given for HYLIFE-II (an IFE reactor design) energy conversion chambers using Flibe (Li2BeF4), natural lithium and Li17Pb83 cutectic as both coolant and wall protection. To achieve a useful energy density for energy conversion purposes with sufficient tritium breeding (TBR= 1.1), material protection (DPA < 100 and He < 500 appm in 30 years of operation) and shallow burial criteria, coolant zone thickness values are found to be 56 cm for Flibe, 160 cm for natural lithium and 170 cm for Li17Pb83 with SS-304 as structural material.
Material damage investigations are extended to structural materials made of SiC and graphite for the same blanket. DPA values and He production rates in graphite turn out to be comparable to those in SS-304. However, they are higher in SiC, as compared to SS-304 and graphite.