Manufacture and first wall joining for an ITER primary wall module prototype: results of a medium scale mock-up manufacturing

In the frame of the Blanket development programme for ITER, the design envisaged a blanket-shield constructed from modules. Primary Wall Modules consisted of a water-cooled austenitic stainless steel (S.S.) Shield Block and a First Wall, as an integral part of it. The Primary First Wall uses a DS-co...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Fusion engineering and design 2000-09, Vol.56-57, p.267-271
Main Authors: Febvre, M, Bobin-Vastra, I, Lorenzetto, P, Bouveret, Y, Cauvin, D, Raisson, G, Conchon, D
Format: Article
Language:English
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:In the frame of the Blanket development programme for ITER, the design envisaged a blanket-shield constructed from modules. Primary Wall Modules consisted of a water-cooled austenitic stainless steel (S.S.) Shield Block and a First Wall, as an integral part of it. The Primary First Wall uses a DS-copper alloy as the heat sink material bonded to the shield block and a protection material such as Beryllium, to cope with the plasma /wall interaction. The module was designed to sustain a peak heat flux of 0.5 MW/m exp 2 . A manufacturing program was implemented to demonstrate the feasibility for joining the Primary First Wall onto the Shield, which included the manufacture of small scale and medium scale mock-ups, before the manufacture of a prototype. The aim of the paper is to present the different steps and results of a Medium Scale Module manufacturing. (Article includes 8 photos.)
ISSN:0920-3796