Commercial fusion energy will require an energy-producing fusion plasma core (the “fire”)
surrounded by an integrated engineering system (the “fireplace”). This article focuses on the …

Under the ambitious EUROfusion mission of “bringing the stellarator line to technological
maturity”, the development of a Dual Coolant Lithium–Lead (DCLL) Breeding Blanket (BB) …

Recent US fusion development strategy reports all recommend that the US should pursue
innovative science and technology to enable construction of a fusion pilot plant (FPP) that …

The liquid metal shield laboratory (LiMeS-Lab) will provide the infrastructure to develop, test,
and compare liquid metal divertor designs for future fusion reactors. The main research …

One of the ways to extend the lifetime of the divertor for DEMO could be to replace the solid
tungsten plasma-facing components with liquid tin (Sn) confined in a tungsten capillary …

In this work, we study the effect of installing a liquid metal divertor (LMD) using a capillary-
porous structure in the EU DEMO tokamak within the same envelope of the baseline solid …

Abstract While flowing Liquid Metal (LM) Plasma-Facing Components (PFCs) represent a
potentially transformative technology to enable long-pulse operation with high-power …

Plasma-facing component (PFC) geometries are evaluated for a Fusion Nuclear Science
Facility (FNSF) design to find solutions that are compatible with flowing liquid lithium …

The breeding blanket is one of the fundamental components of a nuclear fusion reactor and
is responsible for the fuel production, generating tritium through neutronic capture reaction …

The design and implementation of future flowing liquid-lithium plasma-facing components
(LLPFCs) will be dependent on several factors. Of course, one of the most important is the …