UKAEA Papers

"Equilibrium and stability of plasma in arbitrary mirror fields"

• JB Taylor

"Some stable plasma equilibria in combined mirror-cusp fields"

• JB Taylor

"The magneto - hydrodynamics of a rotating fluid and the earth's dynamo problem"

• JB Taylor

"An integrated digital framework for the design, build and operation of fusion power plants"

• Eann 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…

"Waste implications from minor impurities in European DEMO materials"

• M.R. Gilbert
• T. Eade
• C. Bachmann
• U. Fischer
• N.P. Taylor

Waste-production predictions for the future demonstration fusion power plant (DEMO) are necessary to produce an accurate picture of the likely environmental and economic costs of radioactive waste disposal at end-of-life (EOL). Even during the conceptual stage of DEMO design it is important to perform waste assessment so as to avoid potential surpr…

"Activation, Decay Heat, and Waste Classification Studies of the European DEMO Concept"

• M.R. Gilbert
• T. Eade
• C. Bachmann
• U. Fischer
• N.P. Taylor

Inventory calculations have a key role to play in designing future fusion power plants because, for a given irradiation field and material, they can predict the time evolution in chemical composition, activation, decay heat, gamma-dose, gas production, and even damage (dpa) dose. For conceptual designs of the European DEMO fusion reactor such calcu…

"Long Pulse EBW Start-Up Experiments in MAST"

• V.F. Shevchenko
• Y.F. Baranov
• T. Bigelow
• J.B. Caughman
• S. Diem
• C. Dukes
• P. Finburg
• J. Hawes
• C. Gurl
• J.Griffiths
• J. Mailloux
• M. Peng
• A.N. Saveliev
• Y. TakaHe
• H. Tanaka
• G. Taylor

Start-up technique reported here relies on a double mode conversion (MC) for electron Bernstein wave (EBW) excitation. It consists of MC of the ordinary (0) mode, entering the plasma from the low field side of the tokamak, into the extraordinary (X) mode at a mirror-polarizer located at the high field side. The X mode propagates back to the plasma,…

"Special topics in plasma confinement"

• J. B. Taylor
• S. L. Newton

These notes are based on lectures given by one of us (J.B.T.) at the University of Texas in Austin in 1991. Part I concerns some basic features of plasma confinement by magnetic fields as an introduction to an account of plasma relaxation in Part II. Part III discusses confinement by magnetic mirrors, especially minimum- B systems It also includes …

"Neutron Shielding and Activation of the MASTU Device and Surrounds"

• D. Taylor
• S. Lilley
• A. Turner
• A. Davis

A significant functional upgrade is planned for the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) device, located at Culham in the UK, including the implementation of a notably greater neutral beam injection power. This upgrade will cause the emission of a substantially increased intensity of neutron radiation for a substantially increased amount of time up…

"Lessons learnt from ITER safety & licensing for DEMO and future nuclear fusion facilities"

• N. 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…