Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract Considering applications for plasma facing materials (PFM) in tokamak, the French laboratory LSPM has developed a new methodology for nanometric refractory tungsten alloys manufacruting with high homogeneity in composition. The originality of the invention consists in providing to the nanopowders interesting properties’ such […]
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Toolbox for fast detection and tracking of dust particles in tokamaks
Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract Monitoring the dust within a tokamak is quite challenging: dust particles in the transitory state measure only few microns and despite their high thermal radiation are quite challenging to be characterized in terms of speed, acceleration and change of direction. For years the […]
Investigating radiation damage in materials using ion beams
Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract Considering the evolution of microstructures and material properties under extreme radiation conditions, the JANNuS facility has been developed at University Paris-Saclay that allow multi-scale modelling of radiation effects in materials with in situ observations of microstructure modifications. The versatility of conditions in terms […]
EIRENE code
Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract The EIRENE code has been developed within the nuclear fusion domain to solve the kinetic transport equations of neutral particles within natural gas transport. It is a multiw species code that simultaneously solves a system of time dependent or stationary linear transport equations of almost arbitrary complexity. EIRENE allows, in a flexible manner, […]
Diamond detector matrix
Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract A 12-‐pixels diamond based neutron spectrometer matrix has been built in a collaboration between the two CNR institutes IFP (Institute of Plasma Physics, Milan) and ISM (Institute of the Structure of Matter, Rome). The spectrometer is equipped with fast electronics and digital acquisition, […]
Method for increasing the concentration of tritiated water
Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract A leading European fusion laboratory has developed a method for increasing the concentration of tritiated waste water whilst reducing the volume. The process involves electrolysing the tritiated waste water and then humidifying the evolved gas to reintroduce the tritium into the waste water. […]
Nanofluids For Improved Heat Transfer
Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract Research is underway into the use of nanofluids to improve the cooling of surfaces within fusion reactors that are exposed to extreme heat fluxes. Nanofluids are a mixture of liquids (typically water) with nanoparticles (<100nm) in a concentration that is usually less than […]
First-wall component for a nuclear fusion reactor
Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract A leading European research institution, FZ Jülich, has developed a first-‐wall (i.e. plasma‐facing) composite component for use in a nuclear fusion reactor. The component comprises a fibre‐reinforced graphite heat shield with a lead‐through that contains a CuCrZr alloy cooling tube. The component is […]
Cellular Neural Networks (CNNs) for data processing
Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract The renowned Università di Catania has developed a hardware system for real-time image processing in the JET tokamak. Based on the Falcon architecture, the Cellular Neural Networks (CNN) implementation relies on a hardware system with intrinsic parallelism that can provide real-time data processing […]
Hydrogen Permeation Barriers
Sourcing new fusion technologies everywhere in Europe to foster your innovation… Abstract The Research Centre Juelich has gained substantial expertise in the development, preparation and characterization of hydrogen permeation barriers. In the fusion domain, such coatings are needed to limit losses of Tritium to the environment. Promising laboratory experiments have been conducted. A partner is […]