M. Sasao L. Bertalot M. Ishikawa S. Popovichev
Accuracy of 10% is demanded to the absolute fusion measurement on ITER. To achieve this accuracy, a functional combination of several types of neutron measurement subsystem, cross calibration among them, and in situ calibration are needed. Neutron transport calculation shows the suitable calibration source is a DT/DD neutron generator of source str…
PublishedJ. Mlynar V. Weinzettl G. Bonheure A. Murari JET-EFDA Contributors
Several diagnostic systems in magnetically confined fusion plasmas provide line-integrated measurements along chords, including bolometry, visible light, soft-Xray ~SXR!, or neutron diagnostics. The task of retrieval of spatial distribution of the plasma emissivity from the line-integrated measurements constitutes an important part of fusion data a…
PublishedT. Akiyama K. Kawahata K. Tanaka T. Tokuzawa Y. Ito S. Okajima K. Nakayama C. A. Michael L. N. Vyacheslavov A. Sanin S. Tsuji-Iio LHD Experiment Group
This paper describes the interferometer systems on the Large Helical Device (LHD). LHD is equipped with five interferometer systems, each of which has a different operational purpose and measurable electron density range. A single-channel millimeter-wave interferometer is mainly used for low-density plasmas along a horizontal line of sight on the e…
PublishedA. R. Field D. Dunai N. J. Conway S. Zoletnik J. Sárközi
Beam emission spectroscopy BES of the energetic deuterium D 0 heating beams can provide a means of characterizing the density turbulence in tokamak plasmas. First such measurements have been performed on the MAST spherical tokamak using a trial BES system, which shares the collection optics of the charge-exchange recombination spectroscopy system. …
PublishedJ W Connor R J Hastie P Helander
Tearing mode stability is normally analysed using MHD or two-fluid Braginskii plasma models. However for present, or future, large hot tokamaks like JET or ITER the collisionality is such as to place them in the banana regime. Here we develop a linear stability theory for the resonant layer physics appropriate to such a regime. The outcome is a set…
PublishedD. Iraji A. Diallo A. Fasoli I. Furno S. Shibaev
Fast framing cameras constitute an important recent diagnostic development aimed at monitoring light emission from magnetically confined plasmas, and are now commonly used to study turbulence in plasmas. In the TORPEX toroidal device [A. Fasoli et al. , Phys. Plasmas 13 , 055902 (2006)], low frequency electrostatic fluctuations associated with drif…
PublishedR. Prokopowicz M. Scholz A. Szydlowski S. Popovichev
The paper reports on experiments carried out at JET to test the possibility of using some activating materials (e.g. 89Y, 167Er, 204Pb, 180Hf, 111Cd, etc.) to perform multi-foil neutron activation measurements. It is shown that apart from indium other materials can be successfully used in these measurements delivering more exact information about f…
PublishedM. Avrigeanu R.A. Forrest A.J. Koning F.L. Roman V. Avrigeanu
Experimental cross sections are compared with the results of calculations including all activation channels for the stable isotopes ofMn and Cu, for neutron incident energies below 20MeV as well as up to 40–50MeV. It results that within the former energy range, the model calculations are most sensitive to the parameters related to nuclei in the e…
PublishedR.A. Forrest
Achieving the economically viable release of energy by the fusion process has proved a major scientific and technological challenge. The nuclear reactions involved in the fusion process are well understood, but the interaction of the neutrons with the materials surrounding the plasma is an area of current research. The neutrons have energies larger…
PublishedR.A. Forrest J. Kopecky
The European Activation System (EASY) has been developed for activation calculations. It comprises the EAF nuclear data libraries and the FISPACT inventory code. A new version (EASY-2007) has been released recently that represents a significant extension of previous versions. It contains neutron-induced, deuteron-induced and protoninduced data that…
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