Yichen Qian Mark R. Gilbert Lucile Dezerald Duc Nguyen-Manh David Cereceda
Tungsten (W) is considered a leading candidate for structural and functional materials in future fusion energy devices. The most attractive properties of tungsten for magnetic and inertial fusion energy reactors are its high melting point, high thermal conductivity, low sputtering yield, and low long-term disposal radioactive footprint. H…
PreprintC. Cowley Bruce Lipschultz David Moulton Ben Dudson
As tokamak research moves to reactor conditions, the control of a stable, optimally-detached divertor plasma has become increasingly relevant. Simple predictions of such detachment control have been performed previously using the Detachment Location Sensitivity (DLS) model of detachment. In this study the DLS model is extended and combined with SOL…
Preprint PublishedSehila M. Gonzalez de Vicente Nicholas A. Smith Laila El-Guebaly Sergio Ciattaglia Luigi Di Pace Mark Gilbert Robert Mandoki Sandrine Rosanvallon Youji Someya Kenji Tobita David Torcy
In the absence of official standards and guidelines for nuclear fusion plants, fusion designers adopted, as far as possible, well-established standards for fission-based nuclear power plants (NPPs). This often implies interpretation and/or extrapolation, due to differences in structures, systems and components, materials, safety mitigation systems,…
Preprint PublishedMia Maric Rhys Thomas Tamas Ungar Gyula Zilahi Callum Hunt David Lunt Jack Donoghue Kieran Lynch Philipp Frankel Pierre Barberis Florent Bourlier Michael Preuss Pratheek Shanthraj
Hydride precipitation and reorientation has the potential to embrittle zirconium alloys. This study aims to better understand the influence of the Zr microstructure on hydride precipitation and reorientation. Specifically, the crystallography, phase stability and morphology of hydride precipitation was correlated to microstructural variations due t…
PreprintYichen Qian Mark Gilbert Lucile Dezerald David Cereceda
Tungsten and tungsten alloys are being considered as leading candidates for structural and functional materials in future fusion energy devices. The most attractive properties of tungsten for the design of magnetic and inertial fusion energy reactors are its high melting point, high thermal conductivity, low sputtering yield and low long-term dispo…
Preprint PublishedDavid Andres Marta Serrano Rebeca Hernandez Yiqiang Wang Mark Richardson
The use of small specimen test techniques (SSTT) to determine mechanical properties of irradiated materials has been studied over the previous decades both in fission and fusion programs, but also to characterise and optimise new materials by nuclear and non-nuclear communities. Currently a number of activities are running that focus on the standar…
PreprintS. S. Henderson M. Bernert C. Giroud D. Brida M. Cavedon P. David R. Dux J. R. Harrison A. Huber A. Kallenbach J. Karhunen B. Lomanowski G. Matthews A. Meigs R. A. Pitts F. Reimold M. L. Reinke S. Silburn N. Vianello S. Wiesen M. Wischmeier
While current tokamak experiments are beginning to utilise real-time feedback control systems to manage the plasma exhaust, future tokamaks still require validation of theoretical models used to predict the threshold impurity concentration required to facilitate stationary divertor operation. This work exploits new spectroscopic measurements of …
Preprint PublishedAndrew Lahiff Shaun de Witt Miguel Caballer Giuseppe La Roca Stanislas Pamela David Coster
Access to both High Throughput Computing (HTC) and High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities is vitally important to the fusion community, not only for plasma modelling but also for advanced engineering and design, materials research, rendering, uncertainty quantification and advanced data analytics for engineering operations. The computing re…
Preprint PublishedSuchandrima Das Daniel R. Mason Peter M. Derlet Sergei L. Dudarev Andrew London Hongbing Yu Nicholas Phillips David Yang Kenichiro Mizohata Ruqing Xu Felix Hofmann
Combining spatially resolved X-ray Laue diffraction with atomic-scale simulations, we observe how ion-irradiated tungsten undergoes a series of non-linear structural transformations with increasing irradiation exposure. Nanoscale defect-induced deformations accumulating above 0.02 displacements per atom (dpa) lead to highly fluctuating strains at ~…
Preprint PublishedAlexander J. Leide Matthew J. Lloyd Richard I. Todd David E. J. Armstrong
Raman spectroscopy has been used to identify defective bonding in neon and silicon ion irradiated single crystals of 6H-SiC. Observable differences exist in the CC bonding region corresponding to different defect structures for neon and silicon ion implantations. Evidence of oxidation during high temperature ion implantation is observed as C-O a…
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