E. Surrey A. Holmes
The improvement of the efficiency of neutral beam systems to be compatible with the economic requirements of fusion power plants is a key theme in the European research programme. A novel plasma neutralizer, in which the negative ion beam itself is the source of the plasma, is described. Its success depends on the confinement of the free electrons …
PublishedA.J. Thornton K.J. Gibson J.R. Harrison M. Lehnen R. Martin A. Kirk The Mast Team
Disruptions are of significant concern to future devices, due to the large amount of energy released during the rapid quenching of the plasma. Disruption mitigation has been performed on MAST, to study the effect on heat loads and disruption time scales in a spherical tokamak. Massive gas injection is performed using a disruption mitigation valve c…
PublishedI.Lupelli A.Murari P.Gaudio M.Gelfusa D.Mazon J.Vega
The development of computationally efficient model selection strategies represents an important problem facing the analysis of Nuclear Fusion experimental data, in particular in the field of scaling laws for the extrapolation to future machines, and image processing. In this paper, a new model selection indicator, named Model Falsification Criterio…
PublishedM.R. Gilbert S.L. Dudarev D.Nguyen-Manh L.W. Packer J-Ch. Sublet
In a fusion reactor materials will be subjected to significant fluxes of high-energy neutrons. As well as causing radiation damage, the neutrons also initiate nuclear reactions leading to changes in the chemical composition of materials (transmutation). Many of these reactions produce gases, particularly helium, which cause additional swelling and …
PublishedA.J. Thornton A. Kirk I.T. Chapman J.R. Harrison The Mast Team
Edge localised modes (ELMs) are a concern for future devices as they can limit the operational lifetime of the divertor. The mitigation of ELMs can be performed by the application of resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) which act to degrade the pressure gradient in the edge of the plasma. Investigations of the effect of RMPs on MAST have been per…
PublishedA. Loving O. Crofts N. Sykes D. Iglesias M. Coleman J. Thomas J. Harman U. Fischer J. Sanz M. Siuko M. Mittwollen Et.Al.
EDFA, as part of the Power Plant Physics and Technology programme, has been working on the pre-conceptual design of a Demonstration Power Plant (DEMO). As part of this programme, a review of the remote maintenance strategy considered maintenance solutions compatible with expected environmental conditions, whilst showing potential for meeting the pl…
PublishedS. Collins G. Matthews J. Thomas G. Hermon
Remote handling operations at JET have encountered many challenges to achieve the installation of the ILW beryllium sliced wall during the Enhanced Performance stage 2 (EP2) shutdown of JET. This was a demanding and challenging activity which was based on the experience gained from a period of over 15 years (20000 hrs. operations) of JET In-Vessel …
PublishedD. Nguyen-Manh Pui-Wai Ma M.Yu. Lavrentiev S.L. Dudarev
The development of quantitative models for radiation damage effects in iron, iron alloys and steels, particularly for the high temperature properties of the alloys, requires understanding of magnetic interactions, which control the phase stability of ferritic-martensitic, ferritic, and austenitic steels. In this work, disordered magnetic configurat…
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