A Tool for Blanket Design and Nuclear Analysis Based on MCNP Code

Author

Lee, Young-Seok ; Terzolo, Laurent ; Lee, Dong-Su ; Han, Jung-Hoon

Author_Institution

Adv. Projects Div., Nat. Fusion Res. Inst., Daejeon, South Korea

Volume

38

Issue

3

fYear

2010

fDate

3/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

311

Lastpage

314

Abstract

A Web-based 3-D blanket simulator with a user-friendly graphical interface is developed to assist the process of blanket concept design. The employed point-and-click interface is easy to use without requiring knowledge and in-depth experience with the MCNP code. The developed simulator can be useful not only for a conceptual blanket design and analysis but also for user-education and trainee-training purposes. This work will be extensively utilized in R&D toward the development of advanced Korean blanket concept designs.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; fusion reactor blankets; fusion reactor design; graphical user interfaces; nuclear engineering computing; ITER; Korean blanket concept designs; MCNP code; Web-based 3-D blanket simulator; blanket concept design; nuclear design; point-and-click interface; trainee-training purposes; user-education; user-friendly graphical interface; Blanket; MCNP; Web-based 3-D blanket simulator; component; design parameters; fusion power plant; graphical user interface (GUI); neutronics; point-and-click; visualization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPS.2009.2037627

Filename

5371867