ARIES

ARIES-ACT-1

Stepwise reduction in ARIES-ACT-1 TBR from 1.8 to 1.05 upon including individual elements of SiC/LiPb blanket

3-D distribution of tritium bred in blanket of ARIES-ACT-1

3-D profile of tritium production in LiPb breeder of ARIES-ACT-1

ARIES-AT

ARIES-CS

ARIES-III

ARIES-ST

SPSS

The ARIES program is a national, multi-institutional research activity. Its mission is to perform advanced integrated design studies of the long-term fusion energy embodiments to identify key R&D directions and to provide vision for the fusion program. It is funded by the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy. Since the inception of the program in 1988, the ARIES team has developed numerous MFE and IFE power plants and examined the critical design issues for a broad range of alternate concepts. All ARIES power plants generate 1000 MW of net electric power and are assumed to operate for 40 full power years.

Since the early 1990s, the UW neutronics group has been leading the ARIES nuclear task that includes neutronics, shielding, and activation. More specifically, we provide the tritium breeding ratio, neutron wall loading profile, surface and volumetric heat loads to all components, overall neutron energy multiplication, neutron dose to structural materials, service lifetimes of all components, radial/vertical builds, radioactive inventory, biological dose for maintenance, and options for handling all kinds of radioactive materials during plant operation and after decommissioning.

Publications

Waste Issues and Radiological Inventory in LiPb; L. El-Guebaly, P. Wilson, D. Henderson, September 2000 [ARIES Meeting, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, 18-20 September 2000]. (15 pages, 127 kB)

UWFDM-1378 W-Based Alloys for Advanced Divertor Designs: Detailed Activation and Radiation Damage Analyses; A. Robinson, L. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson, October 2010 (revised December 2010). (23 pages, 653 kB)

W-Based Alloys for Advanced Divertor Designs: Detailed Activation and Radiation Damage Analyses; A. Robinson, L. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson and the ARIES Team, November 2010 [presented at the 19th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 7-11 November 2010, Las Vegas NV]. (1 page, 511 kB)

Views on Neutronics and Activation Issues Facing Thick Liquid-Protected IFE Chambers; L. El-Guebaly, 2005 [Fusion Science & Technology, 47, No. 3, 544].

UWFDM-1245 Views on Neutronics and Activation Issues Facing Liquid-Protected IFE Chambers; L. El-Guebaly, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (3), April 2005, pp. 544-548]. (8 pages, 848 kB)

Views on Neutronics and Activation Issues Facing Liquid-Protected IFE Chambers; L.A. El-Guebaly and the ARIES Team, September 2004 [presented at the 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 14-16 September 2004, Madison WI]. (1 page, 621 kB)

Updated Nuclear Parameters, Radial/Vertical Build, and Activation Analysis for ARIES-AT; L. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson, A. Abdou, March 2000 [Presented at the ARIES Project Meeting, 20-21 March 2000, University of California at San Diego]. (27 pages, 195 kB)

Updated LOCA/LOFA Analyses for Blanket and Shield Only Regions; C. Martin, J. Blanchard, June 2005 [presented at the ARIES-CS Project Meeting, 14-15 June 2005, Madison WI]. (10 pages, 891 kB)

Update on First Wall and Blanket Design for ARIES-AT Power Plant; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, E.A. Mogahed, L.A. El-Guebaly, December 1999 [ARIES Meeting, December 1-3, 1999, UCSD]. (24 pages, 341 kB)

UW Blanket Activity; L. El-Guebaly, E. Mogahed, I. Sviatoslavsky, J. Santarius, March 1999 [ARIES Project E-Meeting, 16 March 1999, UCSD]. (15 pages, 220 kB)

Tritium Breeding Ratio Requirements; L. El-Guebaly, June 2007 [presented at the ARIES-TNS Project Meeting,, 14-15 June 2007, General Atomics, San Diego CA]. (29 pages, 1.4 MB)

Tritium Breeding Issues for MFE and IFE; L.A. El-Guebaly, March 2001 [ARIES Tritium Town Meeting, Livermore CA, 6-7 March 2001]. (13 pages, 79 kB)

Toward the Ultimate Goal of Tritium Self-Sufficiency: Technical Issues and Requirements Imposed on Fusion Power; L. El-Guebaly and S. Malang, September 2008 [presented at the 18th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 28 September-2 October 2008, San Francisco CA]. (18 pages, 981 kB)

UWFDM-1330 Toward the Ultimate Goal of Tritium Self-Sufficiency: Technical Issues and Requirements Imposed on ARIES Fusion Power Plants; L.A. El-Guebaly and S. Malang, April 2008 (revised August 2008) [submitted to Fusion Engineering and Design]. (32 pages, 2.0 MB)

Toward the Ultimate Goal of Tritium Self-Sufficiency: Technical Issues and Requirements Imposed on ARIES Advanced Power Plants; L. El-Guebaly and S. Malang, March 2009 [presented at the Japan-US Workshop on Fusion Power Plants and Related Advanced Technologies, 16-18 March 2009, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan]. (10 pages, 908 kB)

UWFDM-1079 Three-Dimensional Neutronics Study for ARIES-ST Power Plant; L.A. El-Guebaly and the ARIES Team, June 1998 [Presented at the 13th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, June 7-11, 1998, Nashville TN]. (7 pages, 191 kB)

Three-Dimensional Neutronics Analysis of ARIES-CS Using CAD-Based Tools; P. Wilson, B. Kiedrowski, L. El-Guebaly, G. Sviatoslavsky, J. Lyon, X. Wang, R. Slaybaugh, A. Ibrahim, and the ARIES Team, November 2006 [presented at the 17th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 13-15 November 2006, Albuquerque NM]. (21 pages, 609 kB)

Three-Dimensional Modeling of Complex Fusion Devices Using CAD-MCNP Interface; M. Wang, D. Henderson, T. Tautges, L. El-Guebaly, and X. Wang, 2005 [Fusion Science & Technology, 47, No. 4, 1079].

UWFDM-1414 Three-Dimensional Evaluation of Tritium Breeding Ratio, Nuclear Heating Distribution, and Neutron Wall Loading Profile for ARIES-ACT-1 (SiC/LiPb) Design; L. Mynsberge, A. Jaber, L. El-Guebaly, December 2012. (25 pages, 2.1 MB)

UWFDM-1350 Three Dimensional Analysis of Radiation Streaming Through ARIES-CS He-Access Pipes; A. Ibrahim, D.L. Henderson, L.A. El-Guebaly, P.P.H. Wilson, M.E. Sawan, and the ARIES Team, September 2008 [presented at the 18th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 28 September-2 October 2008, San Francisco CA].

Three Dimensional Analysis of Radiation Streaming Through ARIES-CS He-Access Pipes; A. Ibrahim, D.L. Henderson, L.A. El-Guebaly, P.P.H. Wilson, and M.E. Sawan, September 2008 [presented at the 18th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 28 September-2 October 2008, San Francisco CA]. (23 pages, 3.0 MB)

Thin Liquid Wall Protection Concepts for IFE Reactors; E.A. Mogahed, April 2002 [presented at the ARIES Project Meeting, 22-23 April 2002, Madison WI]. (13 pages, 1.4 MB)

UWFDM-861 Thermo-Mechanical Design and Structural Analysis of the First Wall for ARIES-III, A 1000 MWe D-3He Power Reactor; I.N. Sviatoslavsky, J.P. Blanchard, E.A. Mogahed, September 1991 [Presented at the 14th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 30 September - 3 October 1991, San Diego CA]. (7 pages, 750 kB)

UWFDM-1286 The Feasibility of Recycling and Clearance of Active Materials from Fusion Power Plants; M. Zucchetti, L.A. El-Guebaly, R.A. Forrest, T.D. Marshall, N.P. Taylor, K. Tobita, November 2005 [submitted to the 12th International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, 4-9 December 2005, Santa Barbara CA; published in J. Nucl. Matls. 367-370 (2007) 1355-1360]. (12 pages, 1.2 MB)

UWFDM-874 The ARIES-III D-3He Tokamak Reactor Study; J.F. Santarius and the ARIES Team, January 1992 [presented at the US-USSR Workshop on D-3He Reactor Studies, 25 September - 2 October 1991, Moscow]. (10 pages, 853 kB)

The ARIES-AT advanced tokamak, Advanced technology fusion power plant; F. Najmabadi, A. Abdou, L. Bromberg, T. Brown, V.C. Chan, M.C. Chu, F. Dahlgren, L. El-Guebaly, P. Heitzenroeder, D. Henderson, H.E. St. John, C.E. Kessel, L.L. Lao, G.R. Longhurst, S. Malang, T.K. Mau, B.J. Merrill, R.L. Miller, E. Mogahed, R.L. Moore, T. Petrie, D.A. Petti, P. Politzer, A.R. Raffray, D. Steiner, I. Sviatoslavsky, P. Synder, G.M. Syaebler, A.D. Turnbull, M.S. Tillack, L.M. Waganer, X. Wang, P. West and P. Wilson, Jan. 2006 [Fusion Engineering and Design, 80, 3-23].

The ARIES Program (Advanced Research Innovation and Evaluation Study); L.A. El-Guebaly, February 4, 2003 [FTI Tuesday meeting]. (16 pages, 5.6 MB)

Target Recycling: Problem Definition and Preliminary Analysis for ARIES-IFE-HIB; L. El-Guebaly, October 2001 [ARIES E-Meeting, 24 October 2001]. (16 pages, 221 kB)

Target Activation and Radiological Response of ARIES-IFE Dry Wall Chamber; L.A. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson, P. Wilson, A. Abdou, April 2002 [presented at the 6th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, San Diego, CA, 7-12 April 2002]. (1 page, 356 kB)

UWFDM-1178 Target Activation and Radiological Response of ARIES-IFE Dry Wall Chamber; L.A. El-Guebaly, D.L. Henderson, P.P.H. Wilson, A.E. Abdou, ARIES Team, April 2002 [presented at the 6th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, 7-12 April 2002, San Diego CA; published in Fusion Engineering and Design, vol. 63-64, pp. 653-658 (2002)]. (11 pages, 352 kB)

Target Activation and Radiological Response of ARIES-IFE Dry Wall Chamber; L.A. El-Guebaly, D.L. Henderson, P.P.H. Wilson, and A.E. Abdou, 2002 [Fusion Engineering and Design, 63-64, 653-658].

Systems Code Cost Algorithm Status and Planned Enhancements; L. Waganer and L. El-Guebaly, April 2007 [presented at the ARIES-CS Project Meeting, 3-4 April 2007, University of California-San Diego, LaJolla CA]. (14 pages, 280 kB)

Synergies between Generation IV and Advanced Fusion Power Plants; P. Wilson, T. Allen, and L. El-Guebaly, 2005 [Fusion Science & Technology, 47, No. 3, 445].

Summary of FS Lifetime Assessment and Activation Analysis; L. El-Guebaly, October 2002 [ARIES E-Meeting, 10 October 2002]. (14 pages, 283 kB)

Summary of 2009 Japan/US Workshop on Fusion Power Plants and Related Advanced Technologies with Participation from China; L. El-Guebaly, F. Najmabadi, R. Raffray, April 2009 [presented at the ARIES-Pathways Meeting, 23-24 April 2009, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI]. (8 pages, 14 MB)

UWFDM-1231 Status of US, EU, and IAEA Clearance Standards and Estimates of Fusion Radwaste Classifications; L. El-Guebaly, P. Wilson, D. Paige, and the ARIES and Z-Pinch Teams, December 2004. (18 pages, 907 kB)

Status of CAD/MCNP Status of CAD/MCNP; Paul Wilson, April 2006 [presented at the ARIES-CS Project Meeting, 27-28 April 2006, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI]. (25 pages, 1.7 MB)

Status of 3-D Analysis, Neutron Streaming through Penetrations, and LOCA/LOFA Analysis; L. El-Guebaly, M. Sawan, P. Wilson, D. Henderson, A. Ibrahim, G. Sviatoslavsky, B. Kiedrowski, T. Tautges, C. Martin, October 2006 [presented at the ARIES-CS Project Meeting, 4-5 October 2006, PPPL, Princeton NJ]. (23 pages, 4.2 MB)

State-of-the-Art 3-D Assessment of Elements Degrading TBR of ARIES-ACT SiC/LiPb Blanket; L. El-Guebaly, A. Jaber, L. Mynsberge, and the ARIES-ACT Team, 2013 [Fusion Science and Technology 61 (2013) 582-586].

Shielding and Activation Issues for ARIES-AT; L. El-Guebaly, D. Henderson, A. Abdou, E. Mogahed, August 1999 [ARIES Project Meeting, 9-10 August 1999, UCSD]. (14 pages, 127 kB)

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