UKAEA Papers

"Design, performance, and grounding aspects of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ion cyclotron range of frequencies antenn"

• F. Durodié
• P. Dumortier
• M. Vrancken
• A. Messiaen
• R. Bamber
• D. Hancock
• S. Huygen
• D. Lockley
• F. Louche
• R. Maggiora
• D. Milanesio
• M. P. S. Nightingale
• M. Shannon
• P. Tigwell
• M. Van Schoor
• M. Vervier
• D. Wilson
• K. Winkler
• Cycle Team

ITER’s Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequencies (ICRF) system [Lamalle et al., Fusion Eng. Des. 88, 517–520 (2013)] comprises two antenna launchers designed by CYCLE (a consortium of European associations listed in the author affiliations above) on behalf of ITER Organisation (IO), each inserted as a Port Plug (PP) into one of ITER’s Vacuum Vessel …

"Proposal of an Arc Detection Technique Based on RF Measurements for the ITER ICRF Antenna"

• S. Huygen
• P. Dumortier
• F. Durodié
• A. Messiaen
• M. Vervier
• et al.

"Status of the ITER ICRF system design - ‘Externally Matched’ approach"

• P.U. Lamalle
• M. Shannon
• A. Borthwick
• S. Brons
• B. Chuilon
• P. Dumortier
• F. Durodié
• M. Evrard
• R. Goulding
• F. Louche
• A. Messiaen
• M. Nightingale
• D. Swain
• M. Vervier

The design of the ITER ICRF system has been under revision for several years. The paper presents the status of the design proposal based on a 24 strap antenna plug (6 poloidal by 4 toroidal short radiating conductors) in which the straps are passively combined in 8 poloidal triplets by means of 4-port junctions. These triplets are connected in para…