Materials for future nuclear energy systems

GS Was, D Petti, S Ukai, S Zinkle - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Materials for future nuclear energy systems must operate under more extreme conditions
than those in current Gen II or Gen III systems. These conditions include higher temperature …

Progress, challenges and potentials/trends of tungsten-copper (WCu) composites/pseudo-alloys: Fabrication, regulation and application

Y Wang, L Zhuo, E Yin - International Journal of Refractory Metals and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Tungsten‑copper (Wsingle bond Cu) composites/pseudo alloys with excellent
properties are extremely desirable for applications as electrode materials, functional graded …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges for plasma-facing components in nuclear fusion

J Linke, J Du, T Loewenhoff, G Pintsuk… - Matter and Radiation …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The interaction processes between the burning plasma and the first wall in a fusion reactor
are diverse: the first wall will be exposed to extreme thermal loads of up to several tens of …

Laser based additive manufacturing of tungsten: Multi-scale thermo-kinetic and thermo-mechanical computational model and experiments

S Sharma, KVM Krishna, SS Joshi, M Radhakrishnan… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Coupling a multi-scale thermo-kinetic and thermo-mechanical model with critical
experiments, the present study investigates the role of process parameters on the resulting …

European DEMO design strategy and consequences for materials

G Federici, W Biel, MR Gilbert, R Kemp, N Taylor… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Demonstrating the production of net electricity and operating with a closed fuel-cycle remain
unarguably the crucial steps towards the exploitation of fusion power. These are the aims of …

Powder metallurgy route to ultrafine‐grained refractory metals

L Zhang, X Li, X Qu, M Qin, Z Que, Z Wei… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ultrafine‐grained (UFG) refractory metals are promising materials for applications in
aerospace, microelectronics, nuclear energy, and many others under extreme environments …

Behavior of tungsten under irradiation and plasma interaction

M Rieth, R Doerner, A Hasegawa, Y Ueda… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
In 1959 the Journal of Nuclear Materials (JNM) was founded and is now celebrating its
Diamond Anniversary year. The present paper is part of a series in which single JNM …

Recent progresses on designing and manufacturing of bulk refractory alloys with high performances based on controlling interfaces

T Zhang, HW Deng, ZM **e, R Liu, JF Yang… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Refractory alloys such as tungsten and molybdenum based alloys with high strength,
thermal/electrical conductivity, low coefficient of thermal expansion and excellent creep …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging activated tungsten dust: source, environmental behaviors, and health effects

Y Wang, B Nie, S Zheng, H Wu, N Chen… - Environment International, 2024 - Elsevier
Fusion energy investigation has stepped to a new stage adopting deuterium and tritium as
fuels from the previous stage concentrating hydrogen plasma physics. Special radiation …

[HTML][HTML] Analytical expressions for thermophysical properties of solid and liquid tungsten relevant for fusion applications

P Tolias, EUROfusion MST1 Team - Nuclear materials and energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The status of the literature is reviewed for several thermophysical properties of pure solid
and liquid tungsten which constitute input for the modelling of intense plasma-surface …