T/PJP253/21 - Water-Cooled Lithium Lead (WCLL) Loop: Design and Manufacture

The UK Government has given UKAEA the goal to maintain the UK’s position as a world leader in fusion research and development. As part of this the UKAEA Fusion Technology Facilities (FTF) is establishing a new facility at the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) in Rotherham, Yorkshire. This facility considers the full development cycle from materials technology, to advanced manufacturing and joining, to component testing and will be the home to the Combined Heating and Magnetic Research Apparatus (CHIMERA) test facility. The design and construction of CHIMERA is currently underway after the award of a major contracts agreed for both construction and supply of superconducting magnet components and overall facility construction and commissioning. Once constructed the initial test conditions offered in CHIMERA will be: • Test module heating: 0.5 MW/m2 over the module surface and 100 kW available for internal heating. • Magnets: up to 4 T horizontal field with high spatial gradients, combined with rapidly pulsed vertical 0.5 T field to simulate a plasma disruption. • Test module water cooling: up to “PWR” conditions, 155 bar and 330°C. • Testing under vacuum to 10-5 mbar. • Test module approximate max volume (in pulse magnet mode): 0.5 m x 1.7 m x 0.7 m. A future upgrade proposed for CHIMERA is the addition of a liquid lithium-lead (LiPb) circulation loop located within the existing high-field magnetic field (Figure 1). This upgrade would enable the capability for Water-Cooled LiPb (WCLL) Breeder Zone (BZ) testing under high magnetic field and flux after 2024 to enable heat transfer experiments at component scale but also aid fusion system design.

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