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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)4032025
In its lifetime of around 40 years of scientific operations, JET has performed three full-scale DT experimental campaigns: one in 1997 (DTE1) and two more in a relatively quick succession in 2021 (DTE2) and 2023 (DTE3). One of the goals of these campaigns, apart from studying variety of physics effect relevant to DT plasmas, was demonstration of fu…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)4022025
Multi-machine validation of full electromagnetic plasma initiation modelling with DYON was carried out by the joint modelling of the International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) – Integrating Operating Scenario (IOS) group. The following devices were included in the experiment database: VEST (spherical torus, copper coils, Stainless steel wa…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)4002025
The first measurements of energetic particle-driven ion cyclotron emission (ICE) in the Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak Upgrade (MAST-U) have been obtained by adding a high sampling rate (250MHz) capability to one coil of the existing OMAHA array, oriented to measure fluctuations in the toroidal magnetic field component. All these measurements were carr…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)4042024
JET is the only tokamak capable of Deuterium-Tritium (D-T) operations. The first D-T operations were in the 1990s and again in 2004. In 2020/2021 JET operated a much larger D-T campaign aimed at sustained high fusion power requiring a much higher tritium throughput. This paper presents an overview of the recent Tritium Injections into the JET To…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)4012025
Several fusion plasma devices with magnetic confinement aimed at the burning deuterium-tritium plasma experiments are under construction or at a design stage that includes diagnostics design. Gamma-ray measurements, as well as neutron diagnostics are among the very restricted set of plasma diagnostics that can be acceptable in future D-T
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)3992025
We develop an atomic cluster expansion (ACE) interatomic potential for lithium that accurately models both the solid and liquid phase and the corresponding melting point. The training data is obtained from 0 K density functional theory (DFT) and finite temperature ab initio molecular dynami…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)3971970
In this work, atom probe tomography has been applied to study lithium-induced corrosion of Pulsed-Laser Deposition grown Al2O3, which is a candidate coating material for the breeder blankets of nuclear fusion reactors. Samples were immersed in static Pb-17Li for 7000h with samples extracted from the regions near the ceramic-substrate interface t…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)3962023
As well as having suitable mechanical performance, fusion reactor materials for the first wall and blanket must be both radiation tolerant and low activation, which has resulted in the development of reduced activation ferritic/martensitic (RAFM) steels. The current steels suffer irradiation-induced hardening and embrittlement,…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)3982024
Notched small punch test (SPT) specimens with different types of notches have been adopted by many researchers to understand the fracture parameters of materials. However the specimen geometries have not been standardized and the effects of notch type on mechanical properties, failure mechanisms, and stress state of the tested materials need to be …
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)3952024
Measurements of lattice strain at high spatial resolution are becoming accessible and routine, owing to advances in imaging techniques such as 4D Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. This has the potential to enhance materials characterisation, but the data are difficult to interpret. We present a procedure for extracting local concentrations…
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