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General Atomics announces breeding blanket test facility
General Atomics announced it is developing design concepts in collaboration with the Department of Energy for the Fusion Blanket Component Test Facility (BCTF), which will test full-scale breeding blankets.
“No one has tested a fusion blanket at this scale. While there are more research and development challenges ahead, a BCTF brings us closer to turning fusion from proven science into practical, sustainable power,” said Anantha Krishnan, senior vice president of the General Atomics Energy Group.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Thursday, November 19, 2020|12:15–2:00PM EST|3
Session Chair:
Zeke Unterberg (ORNL)
Staff Producer:
David Strutz (American Nuclear Society)
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Status of the Material Plasma Exposure Experiment
P. D. Ferguson (ORNL), J. Sanseverino, J. Rapp, A. Lumsdaine
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Analysis of Design Alternatives of Actively Cooled RF Windows for MPEX
Claire Luttrell, Joseph Tipton, Juergen Rapp, Michael Kaufman, Richard Goulding, Phil Ferguson (ORNL), Jason Cook, Juan Caneses, Arnold Lumsdaine (ORNL)
Design and testing of a hot hydrogen test loop for plasma material evolution
Leigh Winfrey, William Searight (Penn State)
Steady-state Mechanical Analysis for Target Assembly in the Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment Facility
Arnold Lumsdaine (ORNL), Joseph B. Tipton Jr. (Lipscomb University), Adam M. Aaron (ORNL), Jason Cook (ORNL), Adrian S. Sabau (ORNL)
