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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(26)4272025
Reduced activation ferritic-martensitic (RAFM) steels are a recent class of radiation-resistant steels designed for the structural components of power-producing fusion reactors. In this work an advanced (A)RAFM steel has been developed with superior radiation hardening resistance with respect to the EUROFER-97 upon which it was based. 4D-STEM (s…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)3382025
Tungsten-based BCC superalloys utilising coherent intermetallic strengthening offer a route to improved high temperature
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)3452024
Collisions between particles in a low density plasma are described by the Fokker–Planck collision operator. In applications, this nonlinear integro-differential operator is often approximated by linearised or ad-hoc model operators due to computational cost and complexity. In this work, we present an implementation of the nonlinea…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(24)2332024
Starting from the assumption that saturation of plasma turbulence driven by temperature-gradient instabilities in fusion plasmas is achieved by a local energy cascade between a long-wavelength outer scale, where energy is injected into the fluctuations, and a small-wavelength dissipation scale, where fluctuation energy is thermalized by particle…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(24)2082024
Microinstabilities drive turbulent fluctuations in inhomogeneous, magnetized plasmas. In the context of magnetic confinement fusion devices, this leads to an enhanced transport of particles, momentum, and energy, thereby degrading confinement. In this work, we elaborate on the application of the adjoint method to efficiently determine the variation…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(26)4452023
MARS-F (Liu et al 2000 Phys. Plasmas 7 3681 ) simulations of plasma response in MAST-U highlight the possibility to measure directly the changes in plasma response as a function of the applied 3D field poloidal spectrum, in order to identify the best coil configuration to achieve Edge Localized Mode (ELM) suppression. Achieving ELM suppression in s…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(25)282023
MAST-U is equipped with on-axis and off-axis neutral beam injectors (NBI), external sources of super-Alfvénic fast-ions that provide opportunities for studying a wide range of phenomena relevant to the physics of alpha-particles in burning plasmas. Clear evidence of fast-ion redistribution and loss due to sawteeth (ST), fishbones (FB), long-liv…
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UKAEA-STEP-CP(24)022022
The UK’s Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) reactor design program has recently taken the decision to use exclusively microwave-based heating and current drive (HCD) actuators for its reactor concepts. This is based on a detailed assessment considering all viable HCD concepts, covering the grid to plasma efficiency (), physics applica…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)412022
The MAST-U spherical tokamak has extensive capabilities to produce and explore strongly shaped plasmas and alternative divertor configurations, especially the Super-X. Robust and accurate reconstructions of plasma equilibria are the foundation of many physics analyses, as well as being important intershot for informing operation of the tokamak. …
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(22)552022
The MAST-U fusion plasma research device, the upgrade to the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak, has recently completed its first campaign of physics operation. MAST-U operated with Ohmic, or one or two neutral beams for heating, at 400-800 kA plasma current, in conventional or “SuperX” divertor configurations. Equilibrium reconstructions provide key p…
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