Recent progress in the WCLL breeding blanket design for the DEMO fusion reactor
The water-cooled lithium lead breeding blanket is one of the candidate systems considered for the implementation in the European Demonstration Power Plant (DEMO) nuclear fusion reactor. This concept employs lithium-lead liquid metal as tritium breeder and neutron multiplier, water pressurized at 15.5 MPa as coolant, and EUROFER as structural material. Current design is based on the Single Module Segment approach and follows the requirements of the DEMO-2015 baseline design.