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UKAEA-STEP-PR(24)202024
Success of UKs STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) programme [1] [2] [3] [4] requires a robust plasma control system. This system has to guide the plasma from initiation to the burning phase, maintain it there, producing the desired fusion power for the desired duration and then terminate the plasma safely. This has to be done in a ch…
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UKAEA-STEP-CP(24)042023
In 2019 the UK launched the STEP programme to design and build a prototype electricity producing nuclear fusion power plant, aiming to start operation around 2040. The plant should lay the foundation for the development of commercial nuclear fusion power plants. The design is based on the spherical tokamak principle, which opens a route to high pre…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(23)1502023
Power exhaust is a critical challenge for spherical tokamak reactors, making the design, optimisation and control of advanced divertor configurations crucial. These tasks are greatly simplified if the poloidal magnetic fields in the core and divertor regions can be varied independently. We present a novel method which fixes the core plasma equil…
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UKAEA-STEP-PR(23)052022
In this paper we present optimized actuator trajectories, evolving in time and space, of non-inductive ramp-up scenarios for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP). These trajectories are computed by solving a non-linear, multi-objective, constrained, finite-time optimal control problem. A method unique to STEP ramp-up studies that prov…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)272021
Disruptions pose a serious challenge for future tokamak power plants; at the large stored thermal and magnetic energies of ITER and DEMO plasmas, the heat loads and electromagnetic forces during disruptions must be mitigated. With this objective, JET experiments employing impurity shattered pellet injection (SPI) have recently been undertaken. W…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(20)802020
Reduced activation ferritic steels are an attractive option for use in large structural components surrounding tokamak plasmas in future fusion power plants, but their ferromagnetic response to the confining magnetic fields must be properly understood. Simultaneously, the advantages of operating at high plasma elongation push tokamak designs tow…
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