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Overview of the INL Fusion Safety Program and Summary of Work in Progress
IAEA First Technical Meeting on the Safety, Design and Technology of Fusion Power Plants
Vienna International Centre
Vienna, Austria
May 3, 2016
Brad Merrill, Lee Cadwallader, Masashi Shimada,
Chase Taylor, Robert Pawelko and Paul Humrickhouse
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• Give an overview of the Fusion Safety Program (FSP) at the Idaho
National Laboratory (INL) in the context of FSP’s role in national and
international collaborations
• Describe ongoing FSP experimental capabilities in tritium and
materials research and computer safety code development
• The FSP is a well established program in the US that has an important
role in supporting national and international licensing, safety, and
environmental assessments for magnetic fusion
Presentation Outline
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• INL is the US lead laboratory for Magnetic Fusion Energy (MFE) Safety
– Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) awarded this contract in FY-1979
• FSP’s Mission: assist the fusion community in developing the inherent safety
and environmental potential of fusion power:
– Developing fusion licensing data and analysis tools
– Participating in national and international collaborations and design
studies
– Assist the US and international fusion community in licensing activities
and guidance in operational safety
• FSP maintains core competencies in the following areas:
– Tritium retention and permeation in fusion plasma facing component
(PFC) and blanket materials (also be applied to fission applications)
– Dust and radiological source characterization, dust collection, and material
oxidation
– Fusion safety code development
– Risk Assessment, codes and standards, and failure rate data collection
– Waste management strategies
INL Fusion Safety Program
DOE National and International Collaborations
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• US/Japan collaboration on tritium plasma, heat and neutron irradiation experiments (PHENIX)
– Studying tritium retention and permeation in irradiated tungsten for fusion chamber walls (2013-2019)
• US Fusion Nuclear Science Facility (FNSF) Project
– A collaboration to outline the mission for the first US nuclear fusion device, envisioned to bridge the gap from ITER to DEMO
• USIPO, F4E and ITER International Organization (IO)
– RAMI contract that includes training classes for US designers
– MELCOR support for F4E safety analyses through a contract
– ITER TBM PC, ITER IO magnet arcing safety contract
• US/Korea Fusion Collaboration
– UCLA and INL are collaborating with Korea’s NFRI on fundamental research and development for fusion nuclear science from 2014-2016.
• The International Energy Agency’s multilateral technology initiative on the Environmental, Safety and Economic Aspects of Fusion Power
– China, EU, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the US. Demonstrate the potential for Fusion Energy as a very safe, environmentally attractive and inexhaustible source of power (2012-2017).
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INL Fusion Safety Program (FSP) Overview
Tungsten clad divertor
Designed operating temperature up to 3000 C
• FSP’s Mission: assist the fusion community in developing the inherent safety and
environmental potential of fusion power:
– Developing fusion licensing data and analysis tools
– Participating in national and international
collaborations and design studies
– Assist the US and international fusion community in
licensing activities and guidance in operational safety
• INL FSP input to every ITER safety report including
its RPrS:
– Licensing guidance (DOE Fusion Safety Standard,
1996) & reviews
– Computer code development (modified MELCOR
code), system modelling & accident analysis
– Tritium in-vessel retention data, material oxidation
and dust characterization and explosion indices data
at FES’s Safety and Tritium Applied Research -
STAR facility
– Component failure rate data collection, RAMI
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• DOE FES’s tritium and safety material’s
data research facility since the early
1980’s, expanded in 2001 to become
STAR
• It’s a DOE less-than Hazard Category 3
Nuclear Facility capable of handling low
radiation levels (e.g., W, Ni, Mo, T2) :
contact dose < 1.5 mSv/h, annual dose
< 7 mSv/y, T2 inventory <1.5 g
STAR’s research priorities continue to be: 1. In-vessel tritium source determination:
− Tritium retention in plasma facing
components (PFCs)
2. Blanket & Ex-vessel tritium permeation
testing:
− Tritium permeation through PFCs
and blanket/structural components
3. In-vessel dust source term evaluation:
− Dust characterization and explosion
potential
Safety and Tritium Applied Research (STAR) Lab Located at the INL Site…
STAR
Remote operation center outside PermaCon
• Only linear plasma device in the world that can study tritium inventory and permeation neutron irradiated targets
– Neutron damage creates defects in materials that are different from high energy ion induced damage that leaves additional interstitial atoms in the metal. These defects trap tritium as it permeates through the material
– Tungsten irradiated to 3.0 dpa in ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) will be studied in TPE under the US/Japan PHENIX collaboration
• TPE has been upgraded to produce more prototypical ITER divertor conditions: ion flux 1x1023 m-2s-1, heat flux ~4 MW/m2, and W temperature 1000ºC
Source side
plasma
Target side plasma
TPE TPE’s glovebox TPE’s PermaCon Structure
Tritium Plasma Experiment (TPE) at STAR
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Accelerator
Analysis line for NRA
Chamber for housing
samples and detector for
NRA
p transport calculation
System at the
University of
Wisconsin
W samples irradiated in HFIR exposed to TPE plasma
(M. Shimada, Physica Scripta T145 (2011) 014051).
Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA) of Tungsten Samples from TPE
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First of a kind data
Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy (TDS)
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• The Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy (TDS) includes 6 calibrated leaks (3 He and 3 D2) and is capable of distinguishing He (4.0026 amu) and HT (4.0239 amu) from D2 (4.0282 amu)
• Typical irradiated W (0.025 dpa) desorption spectrum obtained at 0.15 K/s
First of a kind data
22Na (0.5 MeV) or 68Ge (1.9 MeV)
• To predict trapped tritium inventory
computer codes need defect density
• PAS is the tool we are using to
determine this parameter
Positron Source Thermalize
Diffusion
γ-ray
γ-ray
0.511 MeV
0.511 MeV
Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy (PAS) System: a Method for Quantifying Defect Density
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S Parameter: Annihilation with low
momentum valence and unbound electrons,
open defects enhance these events
*C. N. Taylor, et al. “Development of positron annihilation
spectroscopy for characterizing neutron irradiated tungsten,”
Physica Scripta T159 (2014) 014055 (5pp)
• Initial comparison of NRA and PAS results*
• Because of the high trap energy for W (~1.6 eV),
and eventually coupled to RELAP7 is being considered.
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Operating Experience Data Collection supports Safety and RAMI objectives
• Safety needs for failure rate data include evaluating in-vessel components, e.g., new joining techniques and new materials. Some additional needs are for new components specified in new designs.
• ITER RAMI is using the IEA failure rate database developed by the US/EU/J. Data came from tokamaks (DIII-D, JET, FTU) and fusion facilities (TSTA, TLK, TPL).
• Requests from ITER designers show that more RAMI data are needed for tokamak systems, including cryogenics, magnets, plasma heating, fueling, diagnostics, and other systems.
• In 2015, operations data from the LANL Tritium Systems Test Assembly were found in storage. We plan to analyze these data for failure rates, repair times, and for operations information.
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FSP participates in a fusion design code activity
• The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) initiated a working group (WG) on a design code for fusion energy devices.
• The WG thus far has developed a “roadmap” or plan for writing design rules, and has a table of contents developed for the fusion device subsection within ASME Section III.
• The effort is moving forward. The WG leader, Ken Sowder, is seeking help from fusion designers in nations outside the US.
• There has been interest from the ITER IO, the UK, Korea, Japan, China, and other countries.
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Waste Management
• The DOE fusion safety standard (DOE STD-6002-96) states that waste, and especially high level waste, shall be minimized
• Fusion generates a large volume of low level waste; this may be reduced if we can recycle material
• The technical approach and economic aspects of recycling have not been sufficiently investigated
– Feasibility of separations processes have not been demonstrated
– Avoidance of high level waste generation in the process needs to be verified
• We collaborating with the University of Wisconsin on this issue through the US Fusion Nuclear Science Facility (FNSF) design activity
Future Directions in FSE Research
• Strategy based on FES guidance and 2013 FES Peer Review Comments
– Materials Research: Fusion materials, including tungsten irradiated, will be studied at high temperature and heat flux to measure tritium retention and permeation. Dust explosion measurements for fusion materials will continue in support of licensing and computer code development activities. New material diagnostics.
– Code Development: for the near term, a newer version of MELCOR for ITER will to be completed that includes tritium transport and dust explosion models. Long- term: Multi-dimensional safety code capabilities needs to be developed that take advantage of parallel computing (example RELAP 7)
– Risk and Licensing: FSP’s evolving failure rate database will be expanded to include maintenance data from existing tokamaks. Risk-informed safety analysis methods (example RISMC Toolkit) will be studied for application to an FNSF. Continue ASME codes and standards and licensing framework development.
– Collaborations: Participation in existing collaborations to leverage other institution's capabilities and reduce duplication of effort. STAR will move towards being more effective FES User Facility.