Fabrication study on the cooling module of the ITER neutral beam duct liner

Recently the new concept of the ITER neutral beam (NB) duct liner has been developed to improve thermo-mechanical performance and satisfy the requirements for remote handling and maintenance. The design concept of cooling module located inside neutron shield structure is to use deep-drilled panels instead of the original design concept of the casting-modularized component with tubes. In this study, the manufacturing feasibility has been investigated through the fabrication of small size coupons and full scale mock-up. Firstly, the small size coupons are for developing the electron beam welding processes. Secondly, the full scale mock-up which has 6 holes for cooling passage has been fabricated in order to develop the main fabrication processes such as deep drilling, bending and machining. In addition, the pressure and the leak tests have been carried out to check the required performance for completed cooling panel. Although some improvement is required, but the Electron Beam Welding (EBW) has been successfully achieved and generally the deep drilling and bending process also shown good results in dimensional control.