J. Thomas A. Loving O. Crofts R. Morgan J. Harman
The DEMO Active Maintenance Facility (AMF) would be used for the storage, handling and processing of In- Vessel Components (IVC) throughout their time on site, the only exception being the time that they are installed in the vessel. It is anticipated that all handling operations associated with used components will have to be carried out using remo…
PublishedS. Collins G. Matthews J. Thomas G. Hermon
Remote handling operations at JET have encountered many challenges to achieve the installation of the ILW beryllium sliced wall during the Enhanced Performance stage 2 (EP2) shutdown of JET. This was a demanding and challenging activity which was based on the experience gained from a period of over 15 years (20000 hrs. operations) of JET In-Vessel …
PublishedThomas R. Barrett S. Robinson K. Flinders A. Sergis Y. Hardalupas
The thermal performance of high heat flux components in a fusion reactor could be enhanced significantly by the use of nanofluid coolants, suspensions of a liquid with low concentrations of solid nanoparticles. However, before they are considered viable for fusion, the long-term behaviour of nanofluids must be investigated. This paper reports an ex…
PublishedJustin Thomas Antony Loving Christian Bachmann Jon Harman
In Europe the work on the specification and design of a Demonstration Power Plant (DEMO) is being carried out by EFDA in the Power Plant Physics and Technology (PPP&T) programme. DEMO will take fusion from experimental research into showing the potential for commercial power generation. During the fusion reaction, components in the tokamak become h…
PublishedA. Loving O. Crofts N. Sykes D. Iglesias M. Coleman J. Thomas J. Harman U. Fischer J. Sanz M. Siuko M. Mittwollen Et.Al.
EDFA, as part of the Power Plant Physics and Technology programme, has been working on the pre-conceptual design of a Demonstration Power Plant (DEMO). As part of this programme, a review of the remote maintenance strategy considered maintenance solutions compatible with expected environmental conditions, whilst showing potential for meeting the pl…
PublishedS. E. Sharapov L.-G. Eriksson A. Fasoli G. Gorini J. Källne V. G. Kiptily A. A. Korotkov A. Murari S. D. Pinches D. S. Testa P. R. Thomas
Studies establishing key phenomena and developing diagnostics for energetic particle physics, which are essential for the next step burning plasma experiments such as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), have been performed at the Joint European Torus (JET). Experiments have demonstrated clear selfheating of deuterium-tritiu…
PublishedY. Liang H. R. Koslowski P. R. Thomas E. Nardon B. Alper P. Andrew Y. Andrew G. Arnoux Y. Baranov M. Bécoulet M. Beurskens T. Biewer M. Bigi K. Crombe E. De La Luna P. De Vries W. Fundamenski S. Gerasimov C. Giroud M. P. Gryaznevich N.
Type-I edge-localized modes (ELMs) have been mitigated at the JET tokamak using a static external n 1 perturbation field generated by four error field correction coils located far from the plasma. During the application of the n 1 field the ELM frequency increased by a factor of 4 and the amplitude of the D signal decreased. The energy loss per ELM…
PublishedColin George Windsor Thomas Noel Todd David Leonard Trotman Michael Edward Underhill Smith
The plasma position and shape on the COMPASS-D tokamak have been controlled simultaneously with a 75- kHz bandwidth, hard-wired, real-time neural network. The primary network operates with up to 48 selected magnetic inputs and has been used in the vertical position control loop to control the position of the upper edge of the plasma at the radius o…
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