UKAEA Papers

"PULsE: an open-source software for laser flash analysis"

• Artem Lunev
• Vadim Zborovskii
• Teymur Aliev
• Robert Heymer
• Olga Vilkhivskaya

PULsE (Processing Unit for Laser Flash Experiments) is a software suite for processing data generated by a variety of laser flash analysis instruments. It is highly customisable and allows adjusting to the finest experimental detail, including but not limited to electromagnetic interferences, non-uniform laser heating and detection, and coupled …

"14 MeV neutron irradiation data gamma spectroscopy analysis and validation automation"

• Thomas Stainer

An important area of research required for fusion reactor design is the study of materials under high energy neutron irradiation. Deuterium-Tritium (D-T) reactions release 14.1 MeV neutrons and material studies of such high energy neutrons focusing on transmutation and activation are paramount for fusion tokamak devices such as ITER and DEMO. Th…

"Experimental observations of colisionless shock waves in a magnetized plasma"

• JWM Paul
• MJ Parkinson
• J Sheffield
• LS Holmes

"Tarantula - A 100Kv pinch discharge apparatus for studying shock waves"

• WR Bell
• AE Bishop
• HJ Crawley
• GD Edmonds
• JWM Paul
• J Sheffield

"The EUROfusion Materials Property Handbook for DEMO In-vessel Components – Status and the challenge to improve confidence level for engineering data"

• Michael Gorley
• Eberhard Diegele
• Ermile Gaganidze
• Ferenc Gillemot
• Gerald Pintsuk

The development of a specific materials database and handbook, for engineering design of in-vessel components of EU-DEMO, is an essential requirement for assessing the structural integrity by design. For key in-vessel materials, including EURFOER97, CuCrZr, Tungsten and dielectric and optical materials, this development has been ongoing now within …

"Development of the material property handbook and database of CuCrZr"

• Kuo Zhang
• Ermile Gaganidze
• Michael Gorley

This report covers the initial progress on the development of material property handbook (MPH) of baseline CuCrZr, within the Materials Engineering Data and Design Integration (MAT-EDDI) of EUROfusion Material Database and Handbook group. Initial drafting of the baseline CuCrZr MPH structure is presented, with inclusion of available data, figure…

"Development of EUROFER97 database and material property handbook"

• Ermile Gaganidze
• Ferenc Gillemot
• Ildiko Szenthe
• Mike Gorley
• Michael Rieth
• Eberhard Diegele

The current paper reports the work of the EUROfusion Material Database and Handbook group within the MAT-EDDI (Materials – Engineering Data and Design Integration) subproject of the EUROfusion consortium. A special emphasis is put on the building of the EUROfusion RAFM steel database accounting around 3000 raw materials data records. A dat…

"Activation, Decay Heat, and Waste Classification Studies of the European DEMO Concept"

• M.R. Gilbert
• T. Eade
• C. Bachmann
• U. Fischer
• N.P. Taylor

Inventory calculations have a key role to play in designing future fusion power plants because, for a given irradiation field and material, they can predict the time evolution in chemical composition, activation, decay heat, gamma-dose, gas production, and even damage (dpa) dose. For conceptual designs of the European DEMO fusion reactor such calcu…

"A field programmable gate array unit for the diagnosis and control of neoclassical tearing modes on MAST"

• T. O’Gorman
• G. Naylor
• K. J. Gibson
• B. Huang
• G. J. Mcardle
• et al.

A real-time system has been developed to trigger both the MAST Thomson scattering (TS) system and the plasma control system on the phase and amplitude of neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs), extending the capabilities of the original system. This triggering system determines the phase and amplitude of a given NTM using magnetic coils at different tor…

"Spin-lattice-electron dynamics simulations of magnetic materials"

• Pui-Wai Ma
• S. L. Dudarev

We develop a dynamic spin-lattice-electron model for simulating the time-dependent evolution of coupled spin, atomic, and electronic degrees of freedom in a magnetic material. Using the model, we relate the dissipative parameters entering the Langevin equations for the lattice and spin degrees of freedom to the heat transfer coefficients of a pheno…