Materials determine in a fundamental way the performance and environmental
attractiveness of a fusion reactor: through the size (power fluxes to the divertor, neutron …

Current R&D activities on materials for fusion power reactors are mainly focused on plasma
facing, structural and tritium breeding materials for plasma facing (first wall, divertor) and …

Within the framework of the International Energy Agency Program on Environmental, Safety
and Economic Aspects of Fusion Power, an international collaborative study on …

Safety and environmental considerations can play a large role in the selection of fusion
materials. In this paper, we review the attributes of different structural, plasma facing, and …

Safety and Environmental Assessment of Fusion Power (SEAFP) waste management
studies performed up to 1998 concerned three power tokamak designs. In-vessel structural …

The present paper reviews the status of the knowledge on materials for fusion power plants,
pointing out that they constitute one of the main key issues on the path to future reactors …

After decades of designing magnetic and inertial fusion power plants, it is timely to develop a
new framework for managing the activated (and contaminated) materials that will be …

This paper focuses on a few recent advances and research developments concerning fusion
radioactive waste management studies. In particular: the role of fusion power in the frame of …

The operating conditions in fusion power reactors will be extremely severe. Materials which
can be exposed to neutron fluences of the expected order of magnitude (200 dpa) without …

Material issues pose a significant challenge for the design of future fusion reactors. From a
historic point of view, the material mix used for the first wall of a fusion reactor has …