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"The Helias (Helical Advanced Stellarator) reactor is based on the Wendelstein stellarator line and takes into account the design criteria of a power reactor."

http://epsppd.epfl.ch/Sofia/pdf/P4_192.pdf

Alas, it "just" seems to talk about extending the coil design for a reactor, not the rest. I am guessing most of that would be similar as for other fusion reactors, see for example MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk

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Thanks for the links. Had a bit of a google for Helias. Looks like the Wendelstein team are exploring using something called a "Helium Cooled Pebble Bed Blanket", which was designed for ITER. To me it looks like a closed loop heat exchanger using helium. This would then be fed into a typical steam system.

Though I don't really understand the significance of the "pebbles" in this system.

The pebbles will most likely be made of Lithium because it is a solid/liquid at the operating temperatures of the cooling system and therefore has a high density. It is also an element with a very low atomic mass, which makes the crosssections for interactions with fast neutrons comparably high. So the Lithium will have collisions with the fast neutrons from the D-T-fusion that leave the plasma confinement with most of the energy from the reaction. These will heat up the pebbles due to the energy transfer and from time to time a Lithium-6 atom will catch a neutron. This will make the Lithium core fission into a Helium code amd Tritium core. Tritium is one of the two fuels required for fusion and has a very low natural abundance due to its rather short half life. So breeding it seems to be the best option to obtain it in sufficient quantities.

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