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In 2020, the European DEMO fusion reactor completed its pre-conceptual design stage. This reactor succeeds ITER (first demonstration of net fusion energy, construction in full swing), and is scheduled for construction around 2040. Nevertheless, several design issues must be urgently resolved. One of these lies in the design of the plasma facing heat shields, the so-called Divertor.

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Paulien Herder is professor in Engineering systems design in energy & industry and department head of the Chemical Engineering department at Delft University of Technology.

High temperature endothermic reduction of metal oxides, which can liberate oxygen gas at achievable conditions, converts thermal energy to stored chemical energy. A subsequent re-oxidation step either recovers the stored energy as heat or utilizes it to drive other chemical reactions.