Technical Meeting on Tritium Breeding Blankets and Associated Neutronics

Europe/Vienna
IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria

IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria

Richard Kamendje (EUROFusion)
Description

30 June 2025

Deadline for submission of abstracts through IAEA-INDICO for regular contributions

30 June 2025

Deadline for submission of Participation Form (Form A), Form for Submission of a Paper (Form B) and Grant Application Form (Form C) (if applicable) through the official channels

30 July  2025

Notification of acceptance of abstracts and of assigned awards

02 September 2025

Event begins

05 September 2025

Event ends


For their economical viability, fusion power plants based on a D-T fuel cycle will have to breed their own tritium in-situ. Yet, tritium breeding blankets are one of the most important and novel technical components in any planned next step devices to follow ITER. Many nations are embarking on dedicated R&D programmes to select tritum breeding blanket concepts which overcome issues, such as feasibility and attractiveness. 

Against this backdrop, the IAEA is launching a series of Technical Meetings on the topic of tritium breeding blankets and associated neutronics.

The objectives of the first Technical Meeting in the series are threefold: 

  • Provide a forum for exchanging and discussing technical issues associated to the development and nuclear qualification of tritium breeding blanket technologies;

  • Contribute to the establishment of specific guidelines for the qualification of tritium breeding blankets as part of fusion nuclear installations;

  • Contribute to harvesting the return on experience from the ITER TBM Program to inform and support the development of breeding blankets for next step fusion facilities. 

 

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A special issue in the journal Fusion Engineering and Design on “Progress in tritium breeding blanket development and nuclear qualification” is being considered to publish contributions presented at this meeting following a due peer review process.

Authors of accepted contributions at the meeting are kindly invited to consider submitting their manuscript for publication in this special issue. Information regarding publication modalities including timeline and deadline for manuscript submission will be provided as soon as available. In any event, it is expected that the submission of manuscripts will start immediately after the end of the meeting.