R. Lawless B. Butler A. Hollingsworth P. Camp R. Shaw
Any future European DEMO reactor which is based upon the D-T fusion reaction will require a tritium plant to reprocess gases such that they can be effectively resupplied to the tokamak fuelling systems, and to protect the environment and personnel from tritium releases. The plant must also be designed to allow replacement of burnt fuel with tritium…
PublishedEann A. Patterson Sally Purdie Richard J. Taylor Chris Waldon
The development of a commercial fusion power plant presents a unique set of challenges associated with the complexity of the systems, the integration of novel technologies, the likely diversity and distribution of the organisations involved and the scale of resources required. A framework for creating a digital environment that integrates researc…
Preprint PublishedA.J. Pearce R. Kembleton M. Kovari H. Lux J. Morris M. Siccinio
As conceptual design options for a demonstration fusion power plant (DEMO) are explored it is important to understand the design space for possible non-ITER like design options. The power exhaust is a key design driver for a fusion power plant, and puts strong constraints on the size of the machine. One candidate for a alternative design is a doubl…
Preprint PublishedV.H. Hall-Chen F.I. Parra J.C. Hillesheim
The use of Doppler Backscattering (DBS) in spherical tokamaks is challenging since the magnetic pitch angle can be large (up to 35, compared to 15 in standard tokamaks like JET). Moreover the pitch angle varies both spatially and temporally. Hence, the probe beam is generally not perpendicular to the magnetic field. This misalignment, which affec…
Preprint PublishedJ. Morris N. Asakura Y. Homma
Protecting the divertor in a nuclear fusion power plant is a key criteria for operation. Detailed divertor and scrape-off-layer (SOL) modelling is computationally intensive and unsuitable for a systems code. For the use of such models in systems codes they need to be simplified and made computationally fast, while still capturing the most important…
Preprint PublishedT. Tremethick S. Kirk K. Keogh A. O’Hare E. Harford B. Quirk
As part of the European Research Roadmap to the Realisation of Fusion Energy, the DEMO reactor aims to show the feasibility of a fusion power plant. Due to the loss of revenue created by downtime and the potential for a breakdown to render a reactor inoperable, maintenance is “mission critical” for a power plant. The harsh environment of a fusi…
Preprint PublishedM.S. Anastopoulos-Tzanis C.H. Ham H.R. Wilson
H-mode tokamak plasmas are typically characterised by quasi-periodic instabilities called edge localised modes (ELMs) driven by unstable peeling-ballooning modes [1]. For large scale fusion power plants, the predicted particle and heat fluxes are unacceptable, and an active ELM control method is required. One promising method relies on t…
Preprint PublishedMaria Lorena Richiusa Wayne Arter Dominic Calleja Medhi Firdaouss Jonathan Gerardin Michael Kovari Francesco Maviglia Zsolt Vizvary
Within the framework of EUROfusion DEMO First Wall and limiter design activities, the protection of the First Wall against power deposition peaks is being considered. During steady-state operation, the radiative power from the plasma could be considered uniformly spread on plasma-facing components. However, the presence of openings (i.e. g…
Preprint PublishedK D Lawson M Groth D Harting S Menmuir D Reiter K M Aggarwal S Brezinsek I H Coffey G Corrigan F P Keenan C F Maggi A G Meigs M G O’Mullane S Wiesen JET Contributors
An understanding of the plasma edge and divertor is essential for predicting the performance of next-step machines such as ITER. Transport codes used to study the divertor behaviour [1] employ atomic physics data in two applications. The first is to predict the power radiated by the fuel and impurity atoms, which is carried out as a post-processing…
Preprint PublishedStuart I. Muldrew Hanni Lux Tim C. Hender Bhavin Patel Peter J. Knight Garry M. Voss Howard R. Wilson
Spherical Tokamaks offer a number of potential advantages for a future fusion power plant. They have a high ratio of thermal to magnetic field pressure (beta) and strong flows, either of which could result in reduced turbulence. Fewer Toroidal Field (TF) coils and a different geometry offers the potential for new methods of remote maintenance …
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