J. Hargreaves H. Tipping J.C. Eloi L. Harding H. Dominguez Andrade H. Dawson T.L Martin
Severe plasma transients such as disruptions will impose high magnitude, short duration thermal loads on the plasma-facing first wall of the EU’s DEMOnstration tokamak. Repeated over DEMO’s lifetime, these transients may cumulatively alter the microstructure of first wall structural materials, degrading their performance. The effects of repeate…
Preprint PublishedSarah Bickerton Rob Felton Sarah Medley Dr Rebecca C. R. Shaw Hannah Todd Fatimah Sanni Dr Damien King Sandra Romanelli the JET Contributors
Following the first Deuterium-Tritium Experiment (DTE1) at UKAEA, modifications were investigated to the Joint European Torus’ (JET) gas introduction systems to increase the gas feed capabilities of the JET facility to better support future campaigns. The gas introduction systems comprise the gas introduction and gas distribution system (GI/GD)…
PreprintS. Omole A. J. G. Lunt S. Kirk A. Shokrania
The high ductile-to-brittle transition temperature (DBTT) of tungsten combined with its high hardness make machining incredibly difficult. These properties typically result in the poor-quality machined surfaces and short tool life. In this study, TiAlN coated carbide tools with different rake angles (8°, 10° and 12°) were tested in convention…
PreprintO.Crofts A.Loving M.Torrance S.Budden B.Drumm T.Tremethick D.Chauvin M.Siuko W.Brace V.Milushev M.Mittwollen T.Lehmann F.Rauscher G.Fischer P.Pagani Y.Wang C.Baars A.Vale
During the EU DEMO Pre-Concept Design Phase, the remote maintenance team developed maintenance strategies and systems to meet the evolving plant maintenance requirements. These were constrained by the proposed tokamak architecture and the challenging environments but considered a range of port layouts and handling system designs. The design‑d…
Preprint PurchaseT. Eade S. Bradnam P. Kanth
A new method for the calculation of Shutdown Dose Rates (SDDR) has been developed, the Novel-1-Step (N1S) method. The new method retains the benefits of only requiring a single radiation transport calculation, as in the use of the direct-1-step (D1S) method, while removing the need for pre-calculations to determine dominant nuclides and time corr…
Preprint PurchaseB. Chapman D.R. Hatch A.R. Field L. Frassinetti J.C. Hillesheim L. Horvath C.F. Maggi J. F. Parisi C.M. Roach S.Saarelma J. Walker JET contributors
We present the results of GENE gyrokinetic calculations based on a series of JET-ILW type I ELMy H-mode discharges operating with similar experimental inputsbut at different levels of power and gas fuelling. We show that turbulence due to slab electron-temperature-gradient modes (sETGs) produces a significant amount of heat flux in four JET-ILW …
PublishedJ. Morris M. Coleman S. Kahn A. J. Pearce D. Short J. E. Cook S. Desai L. Humprey M. Kovari J. Maddock D. Vaccaro
As the EUROfusion EU-DEMO design programme approaches the transition between the pre-conceptual and conceptual design phase the systems code PROCESS has been improved to incorporate more detailed plasma physics, engineering and analysis modules. Unlike many systems codes PROCESS combines the physics modelling with both technology and costs analysis…
PreprintD. Nguyen-Manh J.S. Wrobel M. Klimenkov M.J. Lloyd L. Messina S.L. Dudarev
Understanding how properties of materials change due to nuclear transmutations is a major challenge for the design of structural components for a fusion power plant. In this study, by combining a first-principles matrix Hamiltonian approach with thermodynamic integration we investigate quasisteady state configurations of multi-component alloys, …
PreprintD. Kumar J. Hargreaves A. Bharj A. Scorror L. M. Harding H. Dominguez-Andrade R. Holmes R. Burrows H. Dawson A. D. Warren P.E.J. Flewitt T.L. Martin
Plasma-wall interactions in a commercial-scale fusion power station may exert high transient thermal loads on plasma-facing surfaces, repeatedly subjecting underlying structural materials to high temperatures for short durations. Specimens of the reduced activation ferritic-martensitic steel Eurofer-97 were continuously aged at constant temperat…
Preprint PublishedChantal Nobs Jonathon Naish Lee Packer Mario Pillon Maurizio Angelone Stefano Loreti Paolo Del Prete Jesus Izquierdo Raul Pampin Luca Zanibellato
During ITER operations the water coolant flowing through components such as the first wall, blanket modules, divertor cassettes and vacuum vessel will become activated by high energy neutrons. Two key neutron-induced reactions will occur with oxygen in the water producing the radioactive isotopes, N-16 and N-17, which have relatively short half-liv…
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