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UKAEA-STEP-PR(23)032022
Commercial fusion power plants will require strong magnetic fields that can only be achieved using state-of-the-art high temperature superconductors in the form of REBCO coated conductors. In operation in a fusion machine, the magnet windings will be exposed to fast neutrons that are known to adversely affect the superconducting properties of RE…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)062020
The paper looks at a selective smelting regime where higher activity components are smelted with lower activity components with the aim to reduce the amount of ILW waste for disposal. This has been applied to the European DEMO Fusion Plant HCPB 2015 baseline design waste assessment. The paper assesses the structural steels in the breeder blanket…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(23)812023
Linear and nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations are performed in experimentally relevant scenarios built from a MAST case where a microtearing mode instability dominates at ion Larmor radius scale. This collisional microtearing mode instability appears only when a vel…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(19)802019
Deformation mechanisms of high entropy alloys (HEAs) at cryogenic temperatures have attracted extensive research interest. We used in situ neutron diffraction to study the tensile behavior of a face-centered- cubic HEA at 77 and 15 K and compared its stacking fault energy (SFE) at ambient and cryogenic temperatures. The SFE dropped from 28 mJm −2…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)052019
For either nuclear fusion or generation IV fission reactors to be viable as a commercial energy source the decommissioning and waste disposal solutions must be considered during the design. A multi-step simulation process combining Monte Carlo Neutron Transport simulations with inventory simulations have been performed to estimate the activa…
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2018
The vacancies produced in high energy collision cascades of irradiated tungsten can form vacancy clusters or prismatic vacancy dislocation loops. Moreover, vacancy loops can easily transform into planar vacancy clusters. We investigated the formation energies of these three types of vacancy defects as a function of the number of vacancies using thr…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)042023
When RF waves are applied in tokamaks with metal walls, sheath rectification effects associated with the fields induced in the scrape-off layer (SOL) may lead to enhanced plasma-wall interactions (i.e. heat-loads in the limiters, RF-induced impurity sources) which can endanger the integrity of the machine and limit the RF power. Although many co…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)032023
Fuel retention in the JET-ITER like wall (JET-ILW) has decreased by a factor of 20 compared to operation with a carbon wall [1]. The reduction in retention is due largely to the decrease in chemical erosion of the beryllium main chamber. A reduction in co-deposition of fuel with beryllium has previously been reported in the divertor [2]. However…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)022023
Understanding the plasma parameters that affect the scrape off layer (SOL) width is a key issue for future tokamaks as the power entering the SOL (of order 100 MW [1] in ITER) and the SOL width (of order millimetres [2]) determine the heat flux to the divertor surfaces. The Eich scaling [2] can be used to characterise the divertor heat flux prof…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(23)172023
Tungsten (W) is considered a leading candidate for structural and functional materials in future fusion energy devices. The most attractive properties of tungsten for magnetic and inertial fusion energy reactors are its high melting point, high thermal conductivity, low sputtering yield, and low long-term disposal radioactive footprint. However, t…
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