Fusion power plant safety. Proceedings of a technical meeting

The objective of the meeting was to examine in an integrated way all safety aspects anticipated to be relevant to ITER, and to the first power plant prototype expected to become operational by the middle of the century, leading to the first generation of economically viable power plants with attractive safety and environmental features. During the meeting, major areas of relevance were identified and assessed, and scientific recommendations and guidelines assembled to determine the direction of future research and development activities towards the licensing of a DEMO power plant. The meeting programme included a total of 28 papers (4 invited talks, 24 contributed oral presentations). The participants presented the status of experimental and theoretical work on fusion power plant safety. The topics under discussion were: 1) FOS-Fusion specific Operational Safety approach; 2) CFS-Computational codes for Fusion Safety and validation; 3) TBM-Test Blanket Module; 4) AA- Accident Analysis; 5) DW-Decommissioning and Waste; 6) TSI-Tritium safety and Inventories; 7) PPS-Power Plant Safety; 8) FRL-Fusion Reactors Licensing basis and requirements; The meeting ended with a summary session on each topic. The summary manuscript is in preparation and will be submitted to the Nuclear Fusion Journal. The International Advisory Committee members will select papers from the invited and contributed ones to be submitted for publication in a special issue of the Nuclear Fusion journal