Christopher Ham Andrew Kirk Stanislas Pamela Howard Wilson
Fusion is one of very few options for sustainable, baseload power to the grid that is necessary to meet the energy needs of future generations. The tokamak is the most advanced approach to fusion and, with the construction of ITER, we are approaching power plant conditions. While commercialisation of this key technology is a main driver for tokamak…
Preprint PublishedD A Ryan M Dunne A Kirk S Saarelma W Suttrop C Ham Y Q Liu M Willensdorfer the ASDEX Upgrade team the MST1 team
A numerical survey of the plasma response in ASDEX Upgrade ELM control experiments is conducted, to clarify the role of triangularity in the suppression mechanism. The pedestal pressure increases with triangularity consistent with previous work [2], which modestly boosts the peeling response. However, the peeling response decreases with increasi…
Preprint PublishedJonathan Shimwell Remi Delaporte-Mathurin Jean-Charles Jaboulay Julien Aubert Chris Richardson Chris Bowman Andrew Davis Jamie Bernardi Sikander Yasin Xiaoying Tang
Breeding blankets are designed to ensure tritium self-sufficiency in deuterium- tritium fusion power plants. In addition to this, breeder blankets play a vital role in shielding key components of the reactor, and provide the main source of heat which will ultimately be used to generate electricity. The design of blankets is critical to the success …
Preprint PublishedChris Hardie Andrew J. London Joven J. H. Lim Rob Bamber Tonci Tadic Marin Vuksic Stjepko Fazinic
The effects of radiation damage on materials are strongly dependant on temperature, making it arguably the most significant parameter of concern in nuclear engineering. Owing to the challenges and expense of irradiating and testing materials, material property data is often limited to few irradiation conditions and material variants. A new techniqu…
Preprint PublishedAndrew Turner Raul Pampin Adrian Puiu
The In-Vessel Viewing System (IVVS) in ITER consists of six identical units which are deployed between pulses or during shutdown, to perform visual examination and metrology of plasma facing components. The system is housed in dedicated ports at B1 level, with deployment at the level between the divertor cassettes and the lowermost outboard blanket…
PublishedAndrew Davis Andrew Turner
It is known that a priori information on the distribution of neutron fluxes over neutron transport models can improve the computational efficiency of Monte Carlo transport calculations via the use of variance reduction techniques. The uncertainty lies in finding a method which obtains this information as fast and effortlessly as possible. A number …
PublishedAndrea Murari Guido Vagliasindi Sebastiano De Fiore Eleonora Arena Paolo Arena Luigi Fortuna Y. Andrew M. Johnson JET-EFDA Contributors
Dynamical systems are often considered immune from memory effects, i.e., the dependence of their time evolution on the previous history. This assumption has been tested for two phenomena in nuclear fusion that are believed to sometimes show sensitivity to the previous history of the discharge: disruptions and the transition from the L mode to the H…
PublishedY. Liang H. R. Koslowski P. R. Thomas E. Nardon B. Alper P. Andrew Y. Andrew G. Arnoux Y. Baranov M. Bécoulet M. Beurskens T. Biewer M. Bigi K. Crombe E. De La Luna P. De Vries W. Fundamenski S. Gerasimov C. Giroud M. P. Gryaznevich N.
Type-I edge-localized modes (ELMs) have been mitigated at the JET tokamak using a static external n 1 perturbation field generated by four error field correction coils located far from the plasma. During the application of the n 1 field the ELM frequency increased by a factor of 4 and the amplitude of the D signal decreased. The energy loss per ELM…
PublishedD. C. Mcdonald Y. Andrew G. T. A. Huysmans A. Loarte J. Ongena J. Rapp S. Saarelma
A wide range of studies on JET have contributed greatly to the development of the ELMy H-mode as a high-performance scenario for fusion devices and to the understanding of the physical processes that underlie it. Development has focused on the production of a highperformance, high-density, stationary scenario suited to deuterium-tritium operation a…
PublishedP. Arena L. Fortuna M. Bruno G. Vagliasindi A. Murari P. Andrew G. Mazzitelli
At JET, the potential of fast image processing for real-time purposes is thoroughly investigated. Particular attention is devoted to smart sensors based on system on chip technology. The data of the infrared cameras were processed with a chip implementing a cellular nonlinear network CNN structure so as to support and complement the magnetic diagno…
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