FNST Meeting
18–20 August 2009
Rice Room (6764 Boelter Hall), UCLA
(Agenda Word document available here)
Tuesday, August 18
8:30 am 30 min Continental Breakfast
9:00 am 10 min Welcome and meeting goals Abdou
9:10 am 20 min DOE Report Nardella
SESSION I – ITER and TBM PROGRAM
Session Chair: Ying
9:30 am 20 min US TBM Activities and Collaboration Discussions Abdou
9:50 am 20 min PMG-18 meeting report Wong
10:10 am 20 min US ITER FW/shield activities Ulrickson
10:30 pm 15 min Break
SESSION II – DCLL TBM
Session Chair: Kurtz
10:40 am 10 min Introduction / Overview Wong
10:50 am 20 min DCLL TBM RPrS Merrill
11:10 pm 20 min DCLL 3-D neutronics Sawan
11:30 am 20 min Dose calculations/access and impact of SiC Youssef
11:50 am 20 min DCLL TBM design Dagher
12:10 am 20 min Thermal-mechanical modeling of TBM Sharafat
12:30 pm 60 min LUNCH – boxed lunches
1:30 pm 20 min DCLL Helium thermalhydraulics Marriott
SESSION III – CERAMIC BREEDER TBM
Session Chair: Smolentsev
1:50 pm 20 min Integrated simulation and solid breeder blanket R&D Ying
2:10 pm 15 min Be/FS joining for TBMs Hunt
2:25 pm 15 min Purge gas flow impact on tritium permeation Zhang
SESSION IV – FNST EXPERIMENTS AND MODELING
Session Chair: Sze
2:40 pm 10 min Introduction Morley
2:50 pm 30 min MHD related activities for DCLL Smolentsev
3:20 pm 15 min Stability of MHD buoyancy driven flows Vetcha
3:35 pm 15 min Break
3:50 pm 20 min MHD experimental activities for DCLL Messadek
4:10 pm 20 min Multidisciplinary modeling for blanket physics Munipalli
4:30 pm 20 min SiC and FCI R&D Katoh
4:50 pm 20 min SiC/SiC properties and FCI design Shinavski
5:10 pm 20 min Open cell, and syntactic foam for FCIs Sharafat/Williams
5:30 pm Adjourn
Wednesday, August 19
8:30 am 30 min Continental Breakfast
FNST EXPERIMENTS AND MODELING (CONT.)
Session Chair: Katoh
9:00 am 15 min Corrosion in liquid metal MHD flow Saeidi
9:15 am 20 min Titan Tritium Activities Sharpe
9:35 am 20 min Progress on fusion structural materials development Kurtz
SESSION V – RENEW OUTCOME
9:55 am 20 min ReNeW Summary Meier
SESSION VI – PROGRESS TOWARD AN ASPECT RATIO OPTIMIZED FNSF STRATEGY
Session Chair: Abdou
10:15 am 30 min Low aspect ratio features, readiness, and issues of FNSF Peng
10:45 am 30 min Normal aspect ratio features, readiness, and issues of FNSF Stambaugh
11:15 am 30 min Discussion All
11:45 am 90 min LUNCH (in Sequoia Room at UCLA Faculty Center)
SESSION VII – FNSF MISSION, OBJECTIVES and REQUIREMENTS
Session Chairs: Ying/Sawan
1:15 pm 20 min FNSF objectives, requirements and R&D from FNST Perspective Abdou
1:35 pm 60 min Summary of examples of FNST issues:
– D-T self sufficiency (including T-fractional burnup) (10 min.) Abdou
– Implications of tritium burn fraction on fuel cycle (10 min.) Sze
– Tritium extraction, inventory & control and interaction between plasma & blanket/PFC (10 min.) Morley
– MHD thermofluids and fluid-material interactions (10 min.) Smolentsev
– Structural material and fabrication and joining (10 min.) Sharafat
– Failure modes, effects and rates and remote maintenance/downtime (10 min.) Ying
2:35 pm 55 min Discussion All
3:30 pm 15 min Break
SESSION VIII – FNSF BASE/TEST BLANKET
Session Chairs: Wong/Morley
3:45 pm 20 min Conclusions from August 2008 FNST Workshop Morley
4:05 pm 20 min Remarks on FNSF base blanket choices and designs Malang
4:25 pm 20 min Review of available data 10 dpa/150 ppm He damage in FS Stoller/Kurtz
4:45 pm 20 min Scoping neutronics in support of FDF design evolution Sawan
5:05 pm 20 min FNSF neutronics calculations Liu
5:25 pm 15 min TBR requirements for FNSF Sawan
5:40 pm 5 min Discussion will begin on Thursday morning All
5:45 pm Adjourn
Thursday, August 20
8:30 am 30 min Continental Breakfast
FNSF BASE/TEST BLANKET (CONT.)
9:00 am 40 min Discussion on base blanket and test blanket and R&D program All
SESSION IX – FNSF DIVERTOR
Session Chair: Youchison
9:40 am 20 min PFC concepts and R&D for DEMO Youchison
10:00 am 20 min Remarks on FNSF divertor Kotschenreuther
10:20 am 20 min PFC material and design options for FNSF Wong
10:40 am 20 min Discussion on PFC All
11:00 am 15 min Break
SESSION X – SUMMARY and ACTION ITEMS
11:15 am 30 min FNST issues and FNSF mission and requirements Ying/Sawan
11:45 am 45 min FNSF base blanket, test modules, and divertor Morley/Wong
12:30 am 15 min Final Remarks Abdou
12:45 am Adjourn
Thursday PM Special Session on DCLL TBM Design and Interface (DCLL Team)