Shattered pellet injection (SPI), with research started in recent years, is the current concept for the ITER disruption mitigation system (DMS) to prevent disruption-related damage. Compared with impurity SPI, pure deuterium (D2) SPI could contribute to runaway electron (RE) avoidance in ITER via a strong dilution cooling before the thermal quen…
Efficient plasma core fuelling is a key issue for achieving steady-state scenarios in large magnetic confinement fusion devices. At present, the most promising technique to achieve this goal is the injection of cryogenic pellets. In this paper, the injection of nominal pellets into standard plasma
scenarios in the tokamak ITER and the ste…
Pellet material deposited in a tokamak plasma experiences a drift towards the low field side of the torus induced by the magnetic field gradient. Plasma fuelling in ITER relies on the beneficial effect of this drift to increase the pellet deposition depth and fuelling efficiency. It is therefore important to analyse this phenomenon in present machi…
