Abstract
The helium-cooled concept with solid breeding materials is one of the candidates for demonstration fusion power reactor (DEMO) breeding blanket. The first wall (FW) is a core component of the breeding blanket. The FW should keep the structural integrity during the normal plasma operation which is subject to high surface heat flux, neutron wall load, and high coolant pressure simultaneously. Various fabrication methods have been studied for the development of the FW fabrication technologies. This study focuses on FW fabrication technologies with hot isostatic pressing (HIP) bonding which is considered as the most promising method for achieving such complex shape like FW having internal cooling channels. We investigated the HIP bonding conditions using Advance Reduced Activation Alloy, ARAA, which is a reduced activation ferritic-martensitic steel under development in Korea. Temperature, holding time and pressure were considered as the parameters to optimize the HIP bonding conditions. The microstructures around the HIP joints changed with respect to the HIP bonding temperature. The amount of oxide particles around the HIP joints varied depending on the degassing conditions. The tensile strength of the HIP joint was not greatly affected by the presence of the HIP bonding line and degassing conditions. On the other hand, it has been confirmed that the Charpy absorbed energy of the HIP joint was significantly affected by degassing conditions. An increase in oxide particles around the HIP joints occurred when degassing temperature and vacuum level were low, and as the quantity of oxide particles increased, the Charpy absorbed energy of the HIP joint decreased substantially.
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