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MHD effect on tritium transport in WCLL at breeder unit level.
Rel. Massimo Zucchetti, Raffaella Testoni. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Energy And Nuclear Engineering, 2019
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Abstract
The Water-Cooled Lithium-Lead (WCLL) is one of the four breeding blanket concepts proposed by Europe for the demonstrating fusion power reactor DEMO. In the WCLL, tritium, required for the D-T fusion reaction, is produced in the electrically conducting lead-lithium that flows inside the blanket. Its velocity field is strongly influenced by the external magnetic field used for plasma confinement due to a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effect, and by the temperature field. The non-isothermal condition is due to the presence of the heat flux incident on the first wall (FW), the plasma-facing area of the blanket, and the volumetric heat generation caused by the flux of energetic particles passing though the component.
To avoid high temperatures, the WCLL is cooled with water, flowing in EUROFER tubes
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