Evaluation of conservative and innovative manufacturing routes for gas cooled Test Blanket Module and Breeding Blanket First Walls

0510220 - ÚFM 2020 RIV CH eng J - Journal Article
Neuberger, H. - Rey, J. - Arbeiter, F. - Hernandez, F. - Ruck, S. - Koehly, Ch. - Stratil, Luděk - Niewöhner, R. - Felde, A.
Evaluation of conservative and innovative manufacturing routes for gas cooled Test Blanket Module and Breeding Blanket First Walls.
Fusion Engineering and Design. Roč. 146, SEP (2019), s. 2140-2143. ISSN 0920-3796. E-ISSN 1873-7196
Institutional support: RVO:68081723
Keywords : ITER * TBM * production technology * additive manufacturing
OECD category: Materials engineering
Impact factor: 1.692, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Limited access
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Different manufacturing routes are investigated at the KIT INR for the realization of First Walls (FW) for nuclear fusion components, such as the ITER Test Blanket Module (TBM) and DEMO Breeding Blankets (BB) for the Helium Cooled Pebble Bed (HCPB) Breeding concept. One conventional manufacturing route mainly basing of Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) and forming was demonstrated successfully. However, the procurement costs are high. Therefore, options also to apply Additive Manufacturing (AM) as alternative were investigated. This paper compares the HCPB reference concept for FW fabrication to innovative concepts basing on AM.

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