The state of art of the manufacturing technology of FW blanket and the development of mock-up for fusion reactor in Russia

In early 1990s, Russia had carried out the performance tests to verify the optimization of Be tile geometry and the bonding integrity of small mock-up using a HHF (High Heat Flux) test and an in-pile test in a research reactor. They had obtained the reliability of the brazing technologies for the Be/Cu bonding. And they had manufactured the near real-size large mock-up (about 0.8 mm in length) to find the bonding integrity by a fast brazing technique. They had a satisfied results from the HHF test for the large mock-up. Additionally, an alternative FW mock-ups, which were manufactured by both casting and fast brazing techniques to reduce the joining parts, showed a good joining performance from the HHF test. Therefore, it was concluded that the fast brazing techniques could be strongly recommended as a one of the preferable joining techniques and be possible to apply to joining for the Be/Cu joining of FW blanket