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

Shielding Options for FP Maintenance Approach with External VV; L.A. El-Guebaly, June 2005 [presented at the ARIES-CS Project Meeting, 14-15 June 2005, Madison WI]. (14 pages, 1.1 MB)

Shielding Protection Schemes for Final Optics; L. El-Guebaly, June 2001 [ARIES Project Meeting, UCSD, 7-8 June 2001]. (44 pages, 1.3 MB)

Shielding Requirements for Outboard PF Coils of ARIES-ST; Laila El-Guebaly, March 1999 [ARIES Project E-Meeting, 16 March 1999, UCSD]. (3 pages, 134 kB)

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)

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].

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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)

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-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 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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-1418 Neutronics Characteristics, Shielding System, Activation, and Environmental Aspects of ARIES-ACT-2 Power Plant; L. El-Guebaly and L. Mynsberge, December 2014. (36 pages, 2.7 MB)

Radioactive Waste Management of Fusion Power Plants; Luigi Di Pace, Laila El-Guebaly, Boris Kolbasov, Vincent Massaut and Massimo Zucchetti, April 2012 [Chapter 14 in book: Radioactive Waste. Dr. Rehab Abdel Rahman (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0551-0, InTech]. ( available online )

UWFDM-1411 Environmental Aspects of W-Based Components Employed in ITER, ARIES, and PPCS Fusion Designs; M. Desecures, L. El-Guebaly, June 2012. (34 pages, 1.9 MB)

UWFDM-1148 Electromagnetic Disruption Effects in the ARIES-RS Tokamak Design; J.A. Crowell and J.P. Blanchard, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT]. (6 pages, 882 kB)

UWFDM-1152 Options for the Use of High Temperature Superconductor in Tokamak Fusion Reactor Designs; L. Bromberg, M. Tekula, L.A. El-Guebaly, R. Miller, ARIES Team, May 2000 [published in Fusion Engineering and Design 54 (2001) 167-180.].

3-D Assessment of Neutron Streaming through Inboard Assembly Gaps; T.D. Bohm and L.A. El-Guebaly, April 2009 [presented at the ARIES-Pathways Meeting, 23-24 April 2009, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI]. (21 pages, 723 kB)

UWFDM-1364 3-D Assessment of Neutron Streaming through Inboard Assembly Gaps of ARIES Tokamak Power Plant; T.D. Bohm, L.A. El-Guebaly and the ARIES Team, June 2009. (16 pages, 2.6 MB)

UWFDM-1386 Novel Solution for the Problem of Neutron Streaming Through Inboard Assembly Gaps of ARIES Tokamak Power Plants; T. Bohm, L. El-Guebaly, November 2010 [presented at 19th ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, November 7-11, 2010, Las Vegas NV. Published in Fusion Science and Technology 60, Number 1 (July 2011) 278-272.].

Activation Analysis for ARIES-AT Divertor; Ali Abdou, L.A. El-Guebaly, D.L. Henderson, June 2000 [ARIES Review Meeting, June 19-21, 2000, Madison WI]. (15 pages, 1.9 MB)

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