Angel Ibarra

TL;DR: The progress of the DEMO Design Activities in Europe and particularly the work done to address critical design integration issues that affect the machine configuration and performance, the plant concept layout and the selection of system design and technologies are described.

TL;DR: The findings of the EU 'Materials Assessment Group' (MAG), within the 2012 EU Fusion Roadmap exercise, are discussed in this paper, where the authors analyse the technical consequences for the materials required and the development, testing and modelling programmes, using: a systems engineering approach, considering reactor operational cycles, efficient maintenance and inspection requirements, and interaction with functional materials/coolants.

TL;DR: In this article, the DEMO design and RD activities in Europe have been described, focusing on a systems engineering and design integration approach, which is recognized to be essential from an early stage to identify and address the engineering and operational challenges, and the requirements for technology and physics RD.

TL;DR: In this paper, the status of the pre-conceptual design activities in Europe to advance the technical basis of the design of a DEMOnstration Fusion Power Plant (DEMO) to come in operation around the middle of this century with the main aims of demonstrating the production of few hundred MWs of net electricity, the feasibility of operation with a closed tritium fuel cycle, and maintenance systems capable of achieving adequate plant availability.

TL;DR: The findings of the EU Fusion Programme's 'Materials Assessment Group' (MAG), assessing readiness of Structural, Plasma Facing and High Heat Flux materials for DEMO, are discussed, and arguments are developed to optimise scope of materials tests with fusion neutron ('14MeV') spectra before DEMO design finalisation.