Jean-Christophe C. Sublet James W. Eastwood J. Guy Morgan
Fispact-II is an inventory code capable of performing modelling of activation, trans- mutations and burn-up induced by neutron, proton, alpha, deuteron or gamma parti- cles incident on matter. It is a completely new inventory code initially designed to be a functional replacement for Fispact-2007, but now extended to have substantially more capabil…
A. J. Webster S. J. Webster JET-EFDA Contributors
During July 2012, 150 almost identical H-mode plasmas were consecutively created in the Joint European Torus, providing a combined total of approximately 8 minutes of steady-state plasma with 15 000 Edge Localised Modes (ELMs). In principle, each of those 15 000 ELMs are statisti- cally equivalent. Here, the changes in edge density and plasma energ…
PublishedJ. Eriksson G. Castegnetti S. Conroy G. Ericsson L. Giacomelli C. Hellesen JET-EFDA Contributors
In this work we estimate the fuel ion density profile in deuterium plasmas at JET, using the JET neutron camera, the neutron time-of-flight spectrometer TOFOR, and fusion reactivities modeled by the transport code TRANSP. The framework has been tested using synthetic data, which showed that the density profile could be reconstructed with an average…
PublishedS.L. Dudarev
Density functional theory models developed over the past decade provide unique information about the structure of nanoscale defects produced by irradiation and about the nature of short-range interaction between radiation defects, clustering of defects, and their migration pathways. These ab initio models, involving no experimental input parameters…
PublishedN. Taylor P. Cortes
One of the strong motivations for pursuing the development of fusion energy is its potentially low environmental impact and very good safety performance. But this safety and environmental potential can only be fully realized by careful design choices. For DEMO and other fusion facilities that will require nuclear licensing, S&E objectives and crite…
PublishedS.J. Freethy B.K. Huang V.F. Shevchenko R.G.L. Vann
A novel microwave imaging system (SAMI) which utilises an array of phase sensitive antennas to synthesize an optical aperture has been designed and deployed on MAST. The system requires no optical components for focussing and yet is able to image up to half of the plasma surface simultaneously. All image formation is done in post processing and SAM…
PublishedM. Kovari R. Clarke T. Shephard
We reconsider an old idea: a three-stage compound cryopump for use in fusion reactors such as DEMO. The helium “ash” is adsorbed on a 4.5 K charcoal-coated surface, while deuterium and tritium are adsorbed at 15-22 K on a second charcoal-coated surface. The helium is released by raising the first surface to ~30 K. In a separate regeneration ste…
PublishedYueqiang Liu Youwen Sun
The non-linear interplay between the resistive wall mode (RWM) and the toroidal plasma flow is numerically investigated in a full toroidal geometry, by simultaneously solving the initial value problems for the n¼1 RW and the n¼0 toroidal force balance equation. Here, n is the toroidal mode number. The neoclassical toroidal viscous torque is ident…
PublishedJ. E. Rice Y. A. Podpaly M. L. Reinke R. Mumgaard S. D. Scott S. Shiraiwa G. M. Wallace B. Chouli C. Fenzi-Bonizec M. F. F. Nave P. H. Diamond C. Gao R. S. Granetz J.W. Hughes R. R. Parker Et Al
Application of lower hybrid (LH) current drive in tokamak plasmas can induce both co- and countercurrent directed changes in toroidal rotation, depending on the core q profile. For discharges with q0 < 1, rotation increments in the countercurrent direction are observed. If the LH-driven current is sufficient to suppress sawteeth and increase q0 abo…
PublishedA.J. Thornton K.J. Gibson J.R. Harrison M. Lehnen R. Martin A. Kirk The Mast Team
Disruptions are of significant concern to future devices, due to the large amount of energy released during the rapid quenching of the plasma. Disruption mitigation has been performed on MAST, to study the effect on heat loads and disruption time scales in a spherical tokamak. Massive gas injection is performed using a disruption mitigation valve c…
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