Journal article
Recent progress in research on tungsten materials for nuclear fusion applications in Europe
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Materials, Karlsruhe, Germany1
ÖAW, Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Leoben, Austria2
ENEA, C.R. Casaccia, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123 Rome, Italy3
KTH, Department of Functional Materials, Stockholm, Sweden4
Association EURATOM-IST, Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear-Laboratório Associado, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal5
CEIT and Tecnun (University of Navarra), Paseo de Manuel Lardizabal15, 20018 San Sebastian, Spain6
Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas, CRPP EPFL - Materials, 5232 Villigen/PSI, Switzerland7
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, EURATOM Association, Garching, Germany8
CNRS, UPR3079 CEMHTI, 1D Avenue, de la Recherche Scientifique, 45071 Orléans cedex 2, France9
Université d’Orléans, Polytech ou Faculté des Sciences, Avenue du Parc Floral, BP 6749, 45067 Orléans cedex 2, France10
University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, Helsinki, Finland11
EURATOM/CCFE Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon OX14 3DB, UK12
Unité Matériaux et Transformations, UMR 8207, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France13
ESRF Grenoble, 6 Rue Jules Horowitz, 38043 Grenoble, France14
Synchrotron Soleil, L’Orme des Merisiers, St Aubin, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France15
ECN, Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands, Petten, The Netherlands16
EDF R&D, Les Renardières, 77250 Moret sur Loing, France17
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Materials Science Department, Madrid, Spain18
PLANSEE SE, Metallwerk-Plansee-Straβe 71, 6600 Reutte, Austria19
Consultant, 1831 AD 25, The Netherlands20
Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK21
Atomistic Modelling and Design of Materials, Montanuniversität Leoben, Franz-Josef-Straße 18, A-8700 Leoben, Austria22
EFDA-Close Support Unit, Garching, Germany23
Forschungszentrum Jülich, EURATOM Association, Germany24
Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Woloska 141, 02-507 Warsaw, Poland25
Departamento de Física, Universidad Carlos III, Avda. de la Universidad 30, 28911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain26
Departamento de Ciencia e Ingeniería de Materiales, ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/Tulipán s/n 28933 Móstoles, Madrid, Spain27
Institute of Plasma Physics, Za Slovankou 3, 18200 Praha, Czech Republic28
NRG, Nuclear Research & consultancy Group, Petten, The Netherlands29
...and 19 moreThe current magnetic confinement nuclear fusion power reactor concepts going beyond ITER are based on assumptions about the availability of materials with extreme mechanical, heat, and neutron load capacity. In Europe, the development of such structural and armour materials together with the necessary production, machining, and fabrication technologies is pursued within the EFDA long-term fusion materials programme.
This paper reviews the progress of work within the programme in the area of tungsten and tungsten alloys. Results, conclusions, and future projections are summarized for each of the programme’s main subtopics, which are: (1) fabrication, (2) structural W materials, (3) W armour materials, and (4) materials science and modelling.
It gives a detailed overview of the latest results on materials research, fabrication processes, joining options, high heat flux testing, plasticity studies, modelling, and validation experiments.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | Elsevier B.V. |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Pages: | 482-500 |
| ISSN: | 18734820 and 00223115 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2012.08.018 |
