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Deep Fission to break ground this week
With about seven months left in the race to bring DOE-authorized test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, via the Reactor Pilot Program, Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on its associated project on December 9 in Parsons, Kansas. It’s one of many companies in the program that has made significant headway in recent months.
Satoshi Sato, Toshihisa Hatano, Hideyuki Takatsu, Toshio Osaki, Toshimasa Kuroda, Koichi Yamada, Mikio Enoeda, Shinichi Sato, Kazuyuki Furuya, Yoshihiro Ohara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 892-898
Fusion Blanket and Shield Technology (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963726
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A full-scale prototype mockup of the ITER shielding blanket composed of the first wall with built-in circular tubes and the shield block has been successfully fabricated. Joints of the first wall/the shield block as well as those of the DSCu/DSCu, DSCu/SS and SS/SS in the first wall, were simultaneously HIP bonded. The fabricated prototype mockup fully satisfied the specified design conditions such as dimensional accuracy, pressure-resistance, etc. After HIPping, HIPped interfaces were metallographically observed with pieces cut from the edge of the mockup. There were no harmful voids at the bonded interfaces, and good bondability of simultaneous HIP method was confirmed. In addition, engineering data on fabrication including bonding deformation were obtained.