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2016
Demountable superconducting magnet coils would offer signi fi cant benefits to commercial nuclear fusion power plants. Whether large pressed joints or large soldered joints provide the solution for demountable fusion magnets, a critical component or building block for both will be the many, smaller-scale joints that enable the supercurrent to leave…
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CCFE-PR(16)462016
A summary of negative ion development work being presently undertaken at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) is given. The Small Negative Ion Facility (SNIF) has an RF driven volume ion source with beam extraction at energies up to 30keV. The extracted beam of Hions has an associated co-extracted electron beam with an electron to ion ratio o…
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CCFE-PR(15)622015
Engineering and technical constraints on Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) in DEMO may determine the available beam energy and may also strongly impact the Neutral Beam Current Drive (NBCD) efficiency by restricting available beam tangential radii. These latter are determined by factors such as the inter-TF coil spacing, as well as the degree of requir…
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CCFE-PR(15)682015
It has long been recognised that the shortage of external tritium sources for fusion reactors using D-T, the most promising fusion fuel, requires all such fusion power plants (FPP) to breed their own tritium. It is also recognised that the initial start-up of a fusion reactor will require several kilograms of tritium within a scenario in which radi…
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CCFE-PR(17)252015
The JET Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) system is the most powerful neutral beam plasma heating system currently operating. Optical Interlocks were installed on the beam lines in 2011 for the JET Enhancement Project 2 (EP2), when the heating power was increased from 23 MW to 34 MW. JET NBI has two beam lines. Each has eight positive ion injectors oper…
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CCFE-PR(15)352015
A one dimensional model of the magnetic multipole volume plasma source has been developed for application to intense ion/neutral atom beam injectors. The model uses plasma transport coefficients for particle and energy flow to create a detailed description of the plasma parameters along an axis parallel to that of the extracted beam. In this paper …
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CCFE-PR(15)342015
A one dimensional model of the magnetic multipole volume plasma source has been developed for use in intense ion/neutral atom beam injectors. The model uses plasma transport coefficients for particle and energy flow to create a detailed description of the plasma parameters along an axis parallel to that of the extracted beam. Primarily constructed …
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CCFE-PR(15)1222015
The potential for reducing the Cost of Electricity (CoE) by using High Temperature Superconductors (HTS)in the Toroidal Field (TF) coils of a fusion tokamak power plant has been investigated using a new HTS module in the PROCESS systems code. We report the CoE and the design of HTS tokamaks that have been optimised by minimising the major radius of…
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2014
This paper discusses the possibility that there is an enhancement of volume production due to gettering of atomic hydrogen by the caesium deposited on the walls, which reduces the negative ion destruction by associative and non-associative detachment. Such an enhancement would take place for all plasma grid bias voltages. Furthermore at plasma grid…
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2014
There is an increasing need to model plasma inter- action with complex engineered surfaces, notably to verify that power deposition rates are acceptable. The SMARDDA algorithm has been developed to meet this requirement, with particular reference to the neutral beam ducts that feed into the vacuum vessels of tokamaks. Application to limiters and di…
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