A Methodology for Accident Analysis of Fusion Breeder Blankets and Its Application to Helium-Cooled Lead-Lithium Blanket

Dobromir Panayotov; Yves Poitevin; Andrew Grief; Martin Trow; Michael DIllistone; Julian T. Murgatroyd; Simon Owen; Karen Peers; Alex Lyons; Adam Heaton; Richard Scott; Brad J. Merrill; Paul Humrickhouse

doi:10.1109/TPS.2016.2607784

A Methodology for Accident Analysis of Fusion Breeder Blankets and Its Application to Helium-Cooled Lead-Lithium Blanket

Dobromir Panayotov, Yves Poitevin, Andrew Grief, Martin Trow, Michael DIllistone, Julian T. Murgatroyd, Simon Owen, Karen Peers, Alex Lyons, Adam Heaton, Richard Scott, Brad J. Merrill, Paul Humrickhouse

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'Fusion for Energy' (F4E) is designing, developing, and implementing the European helium-cooled lead-lithium (HCLL) and helium-cooled pebble-bed test blanket systems (TBSs) for ITER (Nuclear Facility INB-174). Safety demonstration is an essential element for the integration of these TBSs into ITER and accident analysis is one of its critical components. A systematic approach to accident analysis has been developed under the F4E contract on TBS safety analyses. F4E technical requirements, together with Amec Foster Wheeler and Idaho National Laboratory efforts, have resulted in a comprehensive methodology for fusion breeding blanket accident analysis that addresses the specificity of the breeding blanket designs, materials, and phenomena while remaining consistent with the approach already applied to the ITER accident analyses. The methodology phases are illustrated in this paper by its application to the EU HCLL TBS using both MELCOR and RELAP5 codes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2511-2522
Number of pages	12
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Volume	44
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2016.2607784
State	Published - Oct 2016

Keywords

Accident analyses
DEMO
ITER
fusion breeder blankets (BBs)
fusion safety
test blanket system (TBS)
tritium breeder module (TBM)

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Panayotov, D., Poitevin, Y., Grief, A., Trow, M., DIllistone, M., Murgatroyd, J. T., Owen, S., Peers, K., Lyons, A., Heaton, A., Scott, R., Merrill, B. J., & Humrickhouse, P. (2016). A Methodology for Accident Analysis of Fusion Breeder Blankets and Its Application to Helium-Cooled Lead-Lithium Blanket. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 44(10), 2511-2522. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2016.2607784

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