Neutronics for equatorial and upper ports in ITER

Specific neutronics features of the ITER equatorial and upper ports are discussed in this paper as related to the design development of Diagnostic Equatorial Port Plug (EPP) and Electron Cyclotron Heating Upper Launcher (ECHUL). The focus is on the EPP analysis. Neutronics analyses are based on new calculation results of neutron/photon fluxes, nuclear heating, neutron damage and shutdown dose rates. The results were obtained with the radiation transport code MCNP5, the activation code FISPACT-2007, and the Rigorous 2 Step mesh-based (R2Smesh) interface code which allows to provide shutdown dose rate distributions with high spatial resolution. It was revealed that neutron flux levels in the port access areas, the resulting activation of the port materials and the equivalent radiation doses imposed to work personnel after ITER shutdown are strongly dependent on the openings in the port shielding blocks. For the ECHUL in the upper port, neutron fluxes have been calculated for an updated ITER model and compared with previous results. This work reveals substantial radiation cross-talk effects between the lower, the equatorial and the upper ITER ports and provides fundamental results which can be utilized for further investigations of suitable design options of ITER ports.