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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)222021
Previous studies of the European Demonstration fusion reactor concept (DEMO) have shown that the expected amounts of radioactive waste at end of life (EOL) are of the order of 104 tonnes. These studies also suggested that comparable amounts of waste will be classified as low level waste (LLW) and intermediate level waste (ILW) 100 yea…
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UKAEA-STEP-PR(21)012021
Simulations based on time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau theory are employed to determine the critical current for a model system which represents a Nb–Ti-like pinning landscape at low drawing strain. The system consists of ellipsoids of normal metal, with dimensions 60ξ × 3ξ × 3ξ, randomly distributed throughout the superconducting bulk with t…
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UKAEA-RACE-CP(21)022021
Sensor technologies will play a key role in the success of Remote Maintenance (RM) systems for future fusion reactors such as ITER and DEMO. Understanding their limitations and suitability for use in a fusion context is crucial to the operation and maintenance of these reactors. In this paper, we evaluate three key types of sensor which are of p…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)182021
During operation fusion reactor components will be exposed to long periods of neutron irradiation. As such, a reactor's structural steels will become activated and need to be disposed of as radioactive waste. Previous studies have shown that such wastes can struggle to meet low level waste requirements meaning that costly geological disposal may be…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)072021
A study of a dataset of JET plasma with the Be/W ITER-like wall (JET-ILW) shows that reaching the edge MHD ballooning limit leads to confinement degradation. However, unlike JET plasma with a carbon wall (JET-C), the JET-ILW plasma stays in a marginal dithering phase for a relatively long period, associated with a higher a ( 20%) H-mode density lim…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)202020
In the worlds of nuclear energy, mining, petrochemical processing, and sub-sea, robots are being used for an increasing number and range of tasks. This is resulting in ever more complex robotics installations being deployed, maintained, and extended over long periods of time. Additionally, the unstructured, experimental, or unknown operational cond…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(20)1192020
The JET control and data acquisition system (CODAS) is an integrated system that provides all the pulse based and continuous data acquisition, real time and slow control and control room interfaces for JET. It has a long history, dating back to the beginning of JET in 1980. It utilises both commercially available hardware along with many in-house m…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(20)1122020
Understanding of fuel retention and release processes from plasma facing components (PFCs) of ITER like wall materials is important from fundamental and technological aspects [1]. Detailed information about fuel retention and release characteristics in plasma facing components from JET will allow…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)072019
The public perception of fusion power is that it will provide a clean source of abundant nuclear energy. This is not wholly accurate. Currently planned fusion reactors will use the deuterium-tritium (DT) reaction for power generation. This reaction produces 14 MeV neutrons which, as they cannot be magnetically confined, impinge upon the reactor str…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(20)1282019
It has been long hypothesized that the structure of a material bombarded by energetic particles might approach a certain asymptotic steady state in the limit of high exposure to irradiation. There is still no definitive verdict regarding the validity of this hypothesis or the conditions where it applies. To clarify this, we explore a highly simplif…
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