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  • in reply to: Vibrating solid matter confinement #10660
    Ashtorak
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    I don’t quite get it how a vibrating wall could help and I’m also not a mechanical engineer, but I guess they wouldn’t like the idea or maybe some would – as a challenge 🙂
    Just to give you some figures since they are readily available from my desktop background:
    The total ITER machine mass (cryostat +vacuum vessel + magnets) is 23350 t.
    Shielding , divertor and manifolds (the wall) are 7945 t.

    in reply to: JET restarts with new ITER-like wall #10659
    Ashtorak
    Participant

    Regarding the beryllium – unfortunately it wont be a solution for a widespread application, at least for an ITER-like plant with beryllium blankets. Check this out: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2010.11.040

    I cite just the relevant paragraphs here. The rest is mostly about lithium anyway.

    “The situation with regard to beryllium and lead should also be
    discussed. Beryllium is regarded as a very rare metal. Despite its
    presence in over 90 known minerals, only bertrandite and beryl
    occur in minable concentrations. Annual production was 140 t
    in 2009; figures for the total reserves are not available, but the
    resources amount to only 80,000 t [18]!
    […]
    The beryllium burn-up in 2760 HCPB power plants would be
    524 t annually and the initial loading 331,000 t, vastly exceeding
    the present estimation of resources (see above)! The situation for
    lead in HCLL power plants is somewhat better: the annual burn-
    up would be 8560 t and the initial loading 11.3 Mt. With 1.5 Gt
    resources (see above) the burn up is such that there would be suffi-
    cient lead for about 175,000 years, assuming it were available only
    for fusion. This situation is far from optimal, but better than for
    beryllium.”

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