L. Howlett I. Cziegler S.J. Freethy H. Meyer
Spherical tokamaks are known to differ from conventional tokamaks in a number of physics areas, but our understanding is limited by a comparative lack of experimental data. A comprehensive study of the density dependence of the H-mode power threshold PLH on the Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) is presented, mapping out the low-density a…
PreprintJ. Davies H. Robinson W. Blyth A. Wagner J. Naish S. Bradnam R. Worral
The Active Cells Facility will be the world’s largest hot cell and will be used to process radioactive waste generated in the operation of the European Spallation Source. Several innovative technologies and approaches have been developed for the ESS Active Cells, drawing on advances made in remote handling techniques and technology from fusion re…
PreprintT. Tijssen B. Butler
The tritium inventory of future fusion power plants needs to be monitored in the fuel cycle for several reasons; to comply with limits imposed by environment and safety regulators, adhere to practises required by nuclear regulators and for process control purposes. Fulfilling all these requirements leads to a comprehensive list of locations in the …
PreprintJ. B. J. Chapman P. -W. Ma
A machine-learned spin-lattice interatomic potential (MSLP) for magnetic iron is developed and applied to mesoscopic scale defects. It is achieved by augmenting a spin-lattice Hamiltonian with a neural network term trained to descriptors representing a mix of local configuration and magnetic environments. It reproduces the cohesive energy of BCC …
PreprintH. J. Campbell F. Schoofs A. Reilly
Rare earth barium copper oxides (REBCO) are a particular class of cuprate high temperature superconductor. The favourable properties of REBCO coated conductor tapes (CCTs) and the well-established production methods have brought these tapes to the forefront of tokamak fusion research, showing a lot of promise for the development of powerful, high f…
PreprintAlice Cryer Alfie Sargent Fumiaki Abe Paul Dominick Baniqued Ipek Caliskanelli Hasan Kivrak Hanlin Niu Salvador Pacheco-Gutierrez Alexandros Plianos Masaki Sakamoto Tomoki Sakaue Wataru Sato Shu Shirai Yoshimasa Sugawara Harun Tugal Myles Verdon Andika Yudha Robert Skilton
The maturation of Virtual Reality software introduces new avenues of nuclear decommissioning research. Digital Mockups are an emerging technology which provide a virtual representation of the environment, objects or processes, supporting the whole lifecycle of product development and operations. This paper provides a survey on currently available …
PreprintA. I. Blair D. P. Hampshire
We investigate the in-field critical current density Jc(B) of superconducting-normal-superconducting (SNS) Josephson junctions (JJs) and polycrystalline superconducting systems with grain boundaries modeled as Josephson-type planar defects, both analytically and through computational time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (TDGL) simulations in two and thre…
Preprint PublishedChris Hardie Rhys Thomas Yang Liu Philipp Frankel Fionn Dunne
Classical crystal plasticity formulation based on dislocation slip was extended to include the mechanisms of dislocation channelling, with associated strain softening which is observed in many alloys post irradiation. The performance of the model was evaluated against experimental data on Zircaloy-4, which included engineering stress-strain respons…
Preprint PublishedPui-Wai Ma T.-H. Hubert Chan
We have devised a new type of feedforward neural network. It is equivariant with respect to unitary operators U(n). The input and output can be vectors in Cn with arbitrary dimension n. No convolution layer is required in our implementation, and we also avoid errors due to truncated higher order terms …
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