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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
S. Suzuki, Y. Ueda, K. Tokunaga, K. Sato, M. Akiba
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 1 | July 2003 | Pages 41-48
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Fusion Plenary and Overview | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A308
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper is a review of the present status of research activities on the divertor and the first wall for fusion power plants in Japan. There are several key issues as follows; 1) plasma facing materials, 2) fabrication techniques, 3) thermal hydraulics, and 4) component design. It can be said that solid surface plasma facing components are the present reference design of fusion power plants in Japan. Based on plasma conditions, it turns out that sputtering erosion of plasma facing materials could not be negligible, and some armor would be necessary. From this view point, tungsten is one of the most promising materials. This paper reviews the present engineering status on tungsten as a plasma facing material for fusion power plants.
