Name: Technical Meeting on Tritium Breeding Blankets and Associated Neutronics
Start: 2025-09-02T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-05T18:00:00+02:00
Location: IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria

Technical Meeting on Tritium Breeding Blankets and Associated Neutronics

from Tuesday 2 September 2025 (08:00) to Friday 5 September 2025 (18:00)

Monday 1 September 2025
Tuesday 2 September 2025

09:00 Arrival
Arrival
09:00 - 09:30
Room: M6

09:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:30 - 09:50
Room: M6
09:50 Session 1
Session 1
09:50 - 13:10
Contributions

09:50 The ITER TBM Program: A Pathway Towards Tritium Breeding Blankets For D-T Power Reactors - Luciano Giancarli (ITER Organisation)

10:30 Design and Multi-physical Performance Analysis of the WCCB and COOL Blankets for CFETR - Lei Chen (Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP))

11:40 The Performance Evaluation of Tritium Breeding Materials Under Service Conditions - Qiang Qi (Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

12:10 Performance Assessment and Integration of Different Tritium Extraction Technologies in the Outer Fuel Cycle - Gabriele Ferrero (Politecnico di Torino)

12:40 Experiments and Modeling on Tritium Mass Transfer in Solid Breeding Blanket - Kazunari Katayama (Kyushu University)
13:10 Lunch
Lunch
13:10 - 14:30
14:30 Session 2
Session 2
14:30 - 17:40
Contributions

14:30 Overview of JA DEMO Breeding Blanket Development - Hiroyasu Tanigawa (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology)

15:10 Neutronic And Thermo-Mechanical Analysis in Support of The Design of The Water-Cooled Lead Ceramic Breeder Breeding Blanket Concept for The EU DEMO - Gaetano Bongiovi (Università degli Studi di Palermo)

15:40 Design status of the European DEMO Helium Cooled Pebble Bed breeding blanket - Guangming Zhou (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

16:40 OpenMC-based Parametric Neutronic Assessment of Fusion Breeding Blankets for Compact D-T Reactor Configurations - Davide Pettinari (Politecnico di Torino)

17:10 Reliability Optimised Blanket Using Simulation & Test: A Novel Approach to Breeder Blanket Design - David Pickersgill (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)
17:40 Closing of Day 1
Closing of Day 1
17:40 - 18:00
Wednesday 3 September 2025

08:30 Arrival
Arrival
08:30 - 09:00
Room: M6
09:00 Session 3
Session 3
09:00 - 12:20
Contributions

09:00 Design Exploration and Technology Development of the STEP Li2O Ceramic Breeder Blanket - Christopher Harrington (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)

09:40 Progress and Challenges in Structural and Functional Materials Development for Breeding Blanket in Korea - Yi-Hyun PARK (Korea Institute of Fusion Energy)

10:50 Accelerating Breeder Blanket Design with Scalable Multi-physics Modelling and Digital Engineering Workflows - Helen Brooks (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)

11:20 Advancing Neutronics Modeling of Stellarators Using Mesh-based Serpent2 Workflow - Tommi Lyytinen (VTT Technical Research Center of Finland)

11:50 Thermal-Mechanical Analysis and Anisotropy Analysis of SiC Composites for Low-stress Scylla Breeding Blanket Modules - Luigi Candido (Kyoto Fusioneering Ltd)
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 14:00
14:00 Session 1
Session 1
14:00 - 17:20
Contributions

14:10 European Test Blanket Modules: An Overview of Fabrication Technologies Development and Their Feasibility Assessment - Milan Zmitko (Fusion for Energy (F4E))

14:50 Characterization Program of EUROFER97 RAFM Steel and Implementation Plan in the RCC-MRX Code for the Design and Manufacturing of ITER TBM - Pierre Lamagnère (CEA CADARACHE)

15:20 Beryllium Resource and it’s Stably Securing - Masaru Nakamichi (MiRESSO Co. Ltd.)

16:20 R&D Status in Manufacturing and Assembly of Tritium Breeding Blanket Component - Wanjing Wang (Wanjing Wang, Associate Professor, ASIPP)

16:50 Overview of Japanese Water-Cooled Ceramic Breeder Test Blanket Module Manufacturing and Assembly Technologies - Takanori Hirose (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology)
17:20 Poster session
Poster session
17:20 - 18:50

18:50 Reception
Reception
18:50 - 20:00

20:00 End of Day 2
End of Day 2
20:00 - 20:10
Thursday 4 September 2025

08:30 Arrival
Arrival
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 Session 1
Session 1
09:00 - 12:20
Contributions

09:00 The Role of Different Facilities for the Nuclear Qualification of the BB - Giacomo Aiello (EUROfusion)

09:40 Testing and Nuclear Qualification Strategy for CFETR Breeding Blanket - Kecheng Jiang (Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

10:50 Progress in the Concept Development of the VNS - A beam-driven Tokamak for Component Testing - Ivo Moscato (EUROFUSION Consortium)

11:20 Overview of Some Planned Blanket Test Facilities in the US - Paul Humrickhouse

11:50 The IFMIF-Dones Test Blanket Units - David Rapisarda (CIEMAT)
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 14:00
14:00 Session 2
Session 2
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Irradiation of Be- and Li-Based Materials for Application in ITER TBM - Dmitry Terentyev

14:30 The science objectives and basis of the LIBRTI tritium breeding test facility - Mark Gilbert (CCFE)

15:00 Test Strategy and Infrastructure for Breeding Blanket Development at KFE - Mu-Young Ahn (Korea Institute of Fusion Energy)
16:00 Topics I, II, III
Topics I, II, III
16:00 - 17:30

17:30 Closing remarks
Closing remarks
17:30 - 17:50
Friday 5 September 2025

09:30 Programme committee only
Programme committee only
09:30 - 12:30