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Summary: 401NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, VOL.37 NO.5 OCTOBER 2005
OVERVIEW OF FUSION BLANKET R&D IN THE US OVER
THE LAST DECADE
M. A. ABDOU*
, N. B. MORLEY, A. Y. YING, S. SMOLENTSEV and P. CALDERONI
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department, 44-114 Engineering IV, 420 Westwood Plaza
University of California, Los Angeles CA 90095-1597, USA
*
Corresponding author. E-mail : abdou@fusion.ucla.edu
Received September 5, 2005
1. INTRODUCTION
Developing a vision for an economically competitive
fusion energy system remains the grand challenge for fusion
researchers. Meeting this challenge requires advances in
plasma physics and in fusion technology, a key element
of which is Fusion Power Technology (FPT), also called
Fusion Nuclear Technology (FNT). FPT is concerned with
all reactor components in the immediate exterior of the
plasma, commonly called "in-vessel systems", which include
first wall, divertor, blanket, and the vacuum boundary as
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