IFE plant technology overview and contribution to HiPER proposal

Perlado, J.M.; Sanz, José Luis Muñoz; Álvarez, Jesús Miguel Muñoz; Cereceda, David; Cuesta, Sara García; Courtin, Stéphan; Río, Ezequiel del; Fernández, J.; Fraile, Alberto; Garoz, D.; Gordillo, N.; Guerrero, C.; González-Arrabal, R.; Moral, N.; Juárez, R.; Ognissanto, F.; Rivera, Alejandro; Sánchez, Consuelo; Fernández, Ramón A. Suárez; Victoria, M.; Edwards, Chris; Collier, John; Tyldesley, Michael; Tolley, M.; Neely, D.; Rus, B.; Garrec, B. Le; Schurtz, G.; Sanders, S.

doi:10.1117/12.891266

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“…In this fusion approach, the energy of the light species impinging into the PFM strongly depends on the target illumination mode: direct or indirect. In reactors like HiPER, [24][25][26], operating with direct drive targets, ions are expected to reach PFM with energies well above the displacement threshold. Thus, the radiation-induced damage configuration, in laser fusion reactors with direct targets will be quite different from that expected in MC reactors.…”

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Hydrogen accumulation in nanostructured as compared to the coarse-grained tungsten

González-Arrabal

Panizo-Laiz

Gordillo

et al. 2014

Journal of Nuclear Materials

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Hydrogen accumulation in nanostructured as compared to the coarse-grained tungsten

González-Arrabal

Panizo-Laiz

Gordillo

et al. 2014

Journal of Nuclear Materials

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“…ITER 13 (Figure 1), currently in construction, is likely the most relevant project, and it expects energy gain Q = 10 starting DT operation by 2035. Other projects currently in conceptual design phase include DEMO 14 or IFMIF‐DONES, 15 and HiPER, 16,17 just to name the most ambitious international initiatives.…”

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Improved radiation shielding analysis considering vector calculus

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Summary The future of nuclear energy in the energy mix faces a permanent scrutiny of safety aspects in conciliation with bridled costs, either fission‐ or fusion‐based. This affects to all the exciting milestones pursued in XXIst. To name few in the field of fission, the deployment of the IVth generation reactors is expected or the definitive solution to the radioactive wastes is sought. A mention apart is made to fusion technology, with ITER as the flagship project. It seeks a virtually infinite energy source, intrinsically safe and with reduced radioactive waste production with respect to fission the first commercial reactor. All these, and many other endeavors, share the operation of sophisticated devices in the presence of intense ionizing radiation fields. Humans and electronics must be protected to ensure safe and reliable performance, while shielding normally represents a large fraction of the budget. This involves nuclear analysis in the design phase to forecast the radiation conditions. The complexity of the simulation of 3D radiation fields that is computationally affordable nowadays is unprecedented. While sophistication in geometries and source definitions has become routine, the resulting complexity of these scalar fields makes their analysis increasingly difficult. The need of enhancement of the analysis techniques is evident today. Vector calculus is proposed following a physical interpretation of the field lines that boosts the analysis capabilities. It identifies the trajectories around which shielding is weakest in an automated errorless and effortless approach. Its power is illustrated with an example relevant to the ITER reactor.

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“…HiPER (high power laser energy research) is the ESFRI-EU project aimed to demonstrate the feasibility to produce electric power by direct-drive inertial confinement fusion [10]. HiPER is being developed integrating technologies available at short term to minimize risks.…”

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Design and analysis of helium Brayton power cycles for HiPER reactor

Sánchez

Juárez

Sanz

et al. 2013

Fusion Engineering and Design

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HIGHLIGHTS• A helium Brayton cycle has been designed integrating the two energy sources of HiPER.• The Brayton cycle has intercooling stages and a recovery process.• The low temperature of HiPER heat sources results in low cycle efficiency (35.2%).• Two inter-cooling stages and a reheating process increases efficiency to over 37%.• Helium Brayton cycles are to be considered as candidates for HiPER power cycles. ABSTRACTHelium Brayton cycles have been studied as power cycles for both fission and fusion reactors obtaining high thermal efficiency. This paper studies several technological schemes of helium Brayton cycles applied for the HiPER reactor proposal. Since HiPER integrates technologies available at short term, its working conditions results in a very low maximum temperature of the energy sources, something that limits the thermal performance of the cycle. The aim of this work is to analyze the potential of the helium Brayton cycles as power cycles for HiPER. Several helium Brayton cycle configurations have been investigated with the purpose of raising the cycle thermal efficiency under the working conditions of HiPER. The effects of inter-cooling and reheating have specifically been studied. Sensitivity analyses of the key cycle parameters and component performances on the maximum thermal efficiency have also been carried out. The addition of several inter-cooling stages in a helium Brayton cycle has allowed obtaining a maximum thermal efficiency of over 36%, and the inclusion of a reheating process may also yield an added increase of nearly 1 percentage point to reach 37%. These results confirm that helium Brayton cycles are to be considered among the power cycle candidates for HiPER.

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IFE plant technology overview and contribution to HiPER proposal

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Hydrogen accumulation in nanostructured as compared to the coarse-grained tungsten

Hydrogen accumulation in nanostructured as compared to the coarse-grained tungsten

Improved radiation shielding analysis considering vector calculus

Design and analysis of helium Brayton power cycles for HiPER reactor

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