Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Nobuo Tachikawa

Tsutomu Honda

Nobuhiko Tanaka

Seiichiro Kimura

Yoshinobu Makino

Iwao Ohshima

Hiroshi Masumoto

Takashi Ishitori

Keizoh Honda

Masaru Nakai

Optical paths of laser beams generated from at least two laser beam generators, which are used for performing connection and cutting work at prescribed locations of structural members, are each switched by corresponding optical path switchers, and the laser beams polarized by the corresponding optical path switchers are reflected in the same direction by a laser beam combiner to combine the plurality of laser beams into a parallel laser beam bundle, in order to perform cutting or welding at the corresponding prescribed location. This configuration removes the need to provide high-power laser beam generators for situations such as vacuum walls of fusion devices where the laser generation efficiency is low, while also making it possible to use more powerful high-power lasers therein if necessary.

Remote maintenance method and system for a fusion reactor

A fusion reactor has an internal component in which an internal structure assembly is housed in a toric vacuum vessel in an arrangement along a circumferential direction thereof and in which a high-temperature plasma in which hydrogen and hydrogen isotopes are maintained in a plasma state is confined in a toric internal space defined in the internal structure assembly. The internal component includes a cooling structure of a multi-wall structure having multiple walls formed to the internal structure assembly and a flow channel formed in the cooling structure for a cooling fluid for extracting heat caused by plasma and a nuclear reaction. The internal structure assembly includes a plurality of outboard blanket assemblies each having a surface facing the plasma, a plurality of inboard blanket assemblies each having a surface facing the plasma and a plurality of divertor assemblies each having a surface facing the plasma, the outboard blanket assemblies and the inboard blanket assemblies and the divertor assemblies being arranged along the circumferential direction of the toric vacuum vessel and each of these assemblies being provided with the cooling structure formed on the surface thereof facing the plasma. The internal component also includes means for detecting leakage of gas.

Internal component of fusion reactor

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Ibaraki, Japan

Nobuo Tachikawa