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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(23)1272023
The high source stability and brightness of field emission gun equipped scanning electron microscopes (SEM) makes them ideal for high-resolution digital image correlation (HRDIC). However, their high initial capital cost can be prohibitive for research organisations and groups. Conventional thermionic SEMs using either a tungsten hairpin or LaB
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)2832022
Starting from the equations of collisionless linear gyrokinetics for magnetised plasmas with an imposed inhomogeneous magnetic field, we present the first known analytical, closed-form solution for the resulting velocity-space integrals in the presence of resonances due to both parallel streaming and low-beta magnetic drifts. These integrals are…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)652022
The CHIMERA fusion technology test facility is currently under construction at the UK Atomic Energy Authority site in South Yorkshire, UK. With the completion of the engineering design, including the design of a component mock-up to be used in full system commissioning, this paper presents in detail the features and capabilities of the CHIMERA faci…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)532022
The ITER Heating Neutral Beam (HNB) source prototype SPIDER (Source for the Production of Ions of Deuterium Extracted from a Radio frequency plasma), hosted at the Neutral Beam Test Facility (NBTF) in Padova, Italy, has recently started operating with evaporated caesium in the source. This moves the primary H- production mechanism from volume to…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)502022
Global research programmes seeking to achieve a commercially viable model of a fusion power plant are being accelerated at an unprecedented rate. One critical element to the design and licensing is an accurate understanding of the radiation environment throughout the plant lifetime and subsequent decommissioning phase. The radiation field which res…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(23)1112022
We present the benchmarking, validation, and results of an approximate, analytic model for the radial profile of the stress, strain, and displacement within the toroidal field (TF) coil of a Tokamak at the inner midplane, where stress management is of the most concern. The model is designed to have high execution speed yet capture the essential …
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)432022
MAST Upgrade (MAST-U) is a new low aspect ratio device (R/a = 0.85/0.65 ~ 1.3) based on the MAST tokamak that started plasma operations in October 2020. It has substantial new capabilities compared with the original MAST device, with 19 new poloidal field coils (14 of which are within the vacuum vessel) and new, closed, up-down symmetric diverto…
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UKAEA-STEP-CP(23)042022
The UK has launched a programme to build a prototype fusion power plant, the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP), by 2040. It is intended that the STEP prototype will generate fusion power of the order of 1 GW and net electrical power of the order of 100 MW. Plasma scenarios that could be compatible with these design requirements and wit…
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UKAEA-STEP-PR(22)042022
Rare earth barium copper oxides (REBCO) are a particular class of cuprate high temperature superconductor. The favourable properties of REBCO coated conductor tapes (CCTs) and the well-established production methods have brought these tapes to the forefront of tokamak fusion research, showing a lot of promise for the development of powerful, high f…
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UKAEA-STEP-PR(22)032022
We investigate the in-field critical current density Jc(B) of superconducting-normal-superconducting (SNS) Josephson junctions (JJs) and polycrystalline superconducting systems with grain boundaries modeled as Josephson-type planar defects, both analytically and through computational time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (TDGL) simulations in two and thre…
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