Andrej Horvat Mike Fursdon Nicolas Mantel Rob Bamber Martin Webb Davide Kleiner Roberta Santori
An important contribution to the mechanical stresses present in the ITER ICH antenna is related to the non-uniform heating of its front section due to RF losses, plasma and charge exchange, and the effects of neutron radiation. As a consequence, intensive convective cooling is necessary to maintain temperature and the related thermally induced s…
PreprintB. C. G. Reman R. O. Dendy T. Akiyama M. Salewski S. C. Chapman J. W. S. Cook H. Igami S. Inagaki K. Saito R. Seki G. S. Yun
During bursty MHD events, transient ion cyclotron emission (ICE) is observed from deuterium plasmas in the Large Helical Device (LHD) heliotron-stellarator. Unusually, the frequencies of the successive ICE spectral peaks are not close to integer multiples of the local cyclotron frequency of an energetic ion population in the likely emitting regi…
Preprint PublishedJ. Shimwell J. Billingsley R Delaporte-Mathurin D. Morbey M. Bluteau P.Shriwise
During the design process of fusion reactors it is desirable to rapidly prototype different design concepts and assess their suitability against a range of high level requirements. This helps to narrow the design window and scope out potential designs which can undergo further more detailed analysis. The Paramak is an open-source tool that aims …
Preprint PublishedJ. S Allcock S. A. Silburn R. M. Sharples J .R. Harrison N. J. Conway J. W. M. Vernimmen
In this paper, the pixelated phase mask (PPM) method of interferometry is applied to coherence imag-ing (CI) — a family of passive, narrowband spectro-polarimetric imaging techniques for diagnosing plasmas. Compared to designs using a linear phase mask, PPM is more compact, rugged and has a higher spatial resolution (averaged across both image…
Preprint PublishedK. Verhaegh B. Lipschultz J.R. Harrison B.P. Duval A. Fil D.S. Gahle D. Moulton O. Myatra A. Perek S. Henderson C. Theiler A. Thornton M. Wensing
This paper shows experimental results from the TCV tokamak that indicate plasma-molecule interactions involving D+2 and possibly D− play an important role as sinks of energy (through hydrogenic radiation as well as dissociation) and particles during divertor detachment if low target temperatures (< 3 eV) are achieved. Bot…
Preprint PublishedC J Ham A Bokshi D Brunetti G Bustos Ramirez B Chapman J W Connor D Dickinson A R Field J P Graves T Kiviniemi S Leerink B McMillan S Newton S Pamela C M Roach S Saarelma J Simpson S F Smith P Strand A Virtanen the JET Contributors*
The pedestal plays an important role in determining the confinement in tokamak H-mode plasmas. However, the steep pressure gradients in this transport barrier also lead to edge localized modes (ELMs) [1]. There is good understanding of the pedestal in type I ELM regimes [2], however, type I ELMs are known to damage plasma facing components and f…
Preprint PublishedS.N. Gerasimov P. Abreu L.R. Baylor A. Boboc I.S. Carvalho I.H. Coffey D. Craven V. Huber S. Jachmich E. Joffrin U. Kruezi M. Lehnen P.J. Lomas A. Manzanares M. Maslov E. Matveeva G. Pautasso A. Peacock S. Silburn C. Stuart H. Sun D. Shiraki R. Sweeney J. Wilson L.E. Zakharov
The disruption mitigation system at ITER will include four shattered pellet injectors (SPI), which will be dedicated to the mitigation of electro-magnetic loads (EML), thermal loads and the avoidance and suppression of runaway electrons. Recently the JETILW was equipped with an SPI with a wide capability. Specifically: pellet diameter d = [4.57, 8.…
PreprintNeill Taylor Sergio Ciattaglia Dave Coombs Xue Zhou Jin Jane Johnston Karine Liger Guido Mazzini Juan Carlos Mora Tonio Pinna Maria Teresa Porfiri Egidijus Urbanovicius
Pre-conceptual design studies for a European Demonstration Fusion Power Plant (DEMO) have been in progress since 2014. At this stage, while a range of design options are being considered, it is essential that assessments are carried out of the safety and environmental impact of these options. This is not only to ensure that the DEMO plant is op…
PublishedKevin Verhaegh Basil Duval Ben Dudson Alex Fil Olivier Février Daljeet Gahle James Harrison Omkar Myatra Artur Perek Christian Theiler Mirko Wensing
In this work we provide experimental insights into the impact of plasma-molecule interactions on divertor detachment by applying new spectroscopic analysis techniques to the hydrogen Balmer line series to investigate how both atom and plasma-molecule interactions impact particle balance. Our analysis on a representative L-mode TCV density ramp dis…
Preprint PublishedC.I. Stuart G. Artaserse P. Card I.S. Carvalho R. Felton S.N. Gerasimov A. Goodyear R.B. Henriques D. Karkinsky P.J. Lomas P. McCullen F. Rimini A.V. Stephen D.F. Valcárcel J. Waterhouse M. Wheatley
Plasma Event TRiggering for Alarms (PETRA) is a flexible new system at JET for detecting plasma events to trigger exception handling responses. It provides a platform for all existing and new techniques which involve processing JET real-time data to identify when to change the trajectory of a plasma shot, and reduces the technical cost and risk in …
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