Fusing together an outline design for sustained fuelling and tritium self-sufficiency.

Ensuring tritium fuel self-sufficiency while maintaining continuous and high-specification fuel flow to the tokamak via a low tritium inventory and controllable fuel cycle is a significant challenge to the STEP plant design. Effective and high-quality fuelling and exhaust design is required to sustain and control a stable plasma, whereas fuel sufficiency is required to prevent depletion of available tritium supply. Concerns regarding the lack of tritium availability preventing continuous tritium import are countered by breeding, where highly energetic neutrons from the core fusion reactions interact with lithium atoms suspended in the surrounding breeder blanket to produce tritium.

Data visualization for Industry 4.0: A stepping-stone toward a digital future, bridging the gap between academia and industry.

Here, we analyze the potential of advanced data-visualization dashboards as an enabling technology for Industry 4.0. High-dimensional, real-time visualization allows the graphical expression of complex process variables at a fraction of the cost of full-scale digitalization.