A methodology for accident analysis of fusion breeder blankets and its application to helium-cooled lead–lithium blanket

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

doi:10.1109/TPS.2016.2607784

Title: A methodology for accident analysis of fusion breeder blankets and its application to helium-cooled lead–lithium blanket

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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 (HCPB) 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 INL 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 ITER accident analyses. Furthermore, the methodology phases are illustrated in the paper by its application to the EU HCLL TBS using both MELCOR and RELAP5 codes.

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Panayotov, Dobromir ^[1]; Poitevin, Yves ^[1]; Grief, Andrew ^[2]; Trow, Martin ^[2]; Dillistone, Michael ^[2]; Murgatroyd, Julian T. ^[2]; Owen, Simon ^[2]; Peers, Karen ^[2]; Lyons, Alex ^[2]; Heaton, Adam ^[2]; Scott, Richard ^[2]; Merrill, Brad J. ^[3];

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Fusion for Energy (F4E), Barcelona (Spain)
Amec Foster Wheeler, Knutsford (United Kingdom)
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

Publication Date:: Fri Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Research Org.:: Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)

OSTI Identifier:: 1357251

Report Number(s):: INL/JOU-15-36078
Journal ID: ISSN 0093-3813; TRN: US1702160

Grant/Contract Number:: AC07-05ID14517

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 44; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 0093-3813

Publisher:: IEEE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; accident analyses; fusion breeder blankets (BBs); fusion safety; tritium breeder module (TBM); DEMO; ITER; test blanket system (TBS)

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                    Panayotov, Dobromir, Poitevin, Yves, Grief, Andrew, Trow, Martin, Dillistone, Michael, Murgatroyd, Julian T., Owen, Simon, Peers, Karen, Lyons, Alex, Heaton, Adam, Scott, Richard, Merrill, Brad J., and Humrickhouse, Paul. A methodology for accident analysis of fusion breeder blankets and its application to helium-cooled lead–lithium blanket.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Panayotov, Dobromir, Poitevin, Yves, Grief, Andrew, Trow, Martin, Dillistone, Michael, Murgatroyd, Julian T., Owen, Simon, Peers, Karen, Lyons, Alex, Heaton, Adam, Scott, Richard, Merrill, Brad J., & Humrickhouse, Paul. A methodology for accident analysis of fusion breeder blankets and its application to helium-cooled lead–lithium blanket.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2016.2607784

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                    Panayotov, Dobromir, Poitevin, Yves, Grief, Andrew, Trow, Martin, Dillistone, Michael, Murgatroyd, Julian T., Owen, Simon, Peers, Karen, Lyons, Alex, Heaton, Adam, Scott, Richard, Merrill, Brad J., and Humrickhouse, Paul. Fri .  
"A methodology for accident analysis of fusion breeder blankets and its application to helium-cooled lead–lithium blanket".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2016.2607784.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1357251.

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@article{osti_1357251,

  title        = {A methodology for accident analysis of fusion breeder blankets and its application to helium-cooled lead–lithium blanket},

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

  abstractNote = {'Fusion for Energy' (F4E) is designing, developing, and implementing the European Helium-Cooled Lead-Lithium (HCLL) and Helium-Cooled Pebble-Bed (HCPB) 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 INL 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 ITER accident analyses. Furthermore, the methodology phases are illustrated in the paper by its application to the EU HCLL TBS using both MELCOR and RELAP5 codes.},

  doi          = {10.1109/TPS.2016.2607784},

  journal      = {IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science},

  number       = 10,

  volume       = 44,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2016},

  month        = {Fri Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2016}

}

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