S.Hall P.Jacquet G.Naylor
The Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) is currently being extensively upgraded to provide a system that will be able to add to the knowledge base for ITER as well as testing innovative reactor systems such as the Super-X divertor. MAST-U will have increased coil system and power supply capability. Therefore, to ensure operation of MAST-U within safe…
Preprint PublishedLiga Avotina Anna Widdowson Ionut Jepu Aleksandra Baron-Wiechec Gunta Kizane JET Contributors
Understanding of fuel retention and release processes from plasma facing components (PFCs) of ITER like wall materials is important from fundamental and technological aspects [1]. Detailed information about fuel retention and release characteristics in plasma facing components from JET will allow…
Preprint PublishedSamuel Jimenez Guy Burroughes
The extreme environmental conditions inside future nuclear fusion power plants will mean that maintenance activities must be performed without human access. Current teleoperation paradigms do not enable sufficiently fast maintenance cycles, and automation is seen as a potential solution. Transitioning to an automated maintenance scheme will requ…
PreprintJ. Simpson D. Moulton C. Giroud F. Casson M. Groth A. Chankin L. Horvath D. S. Gahle F. Kochl
EDGE2D-EIRENE simulations show that for a H-mode JET discharge (92168) the dominant atomic neutral deuterium source at the separatrix originates from the inner divertor target. Within JETTO-EIRENE neutral sources are placed at the X-point and outer midplane (OMP). For fixed electron and ion temperature, transport and neutral temperature it is obser…
PreprintK Flinders R Bamber H Lewtas D Hancock D Homfray J Kamalu T Barrett
High heat flux testing is a vital part of engineering component validation for fusion technology. Typically, it is an expensive process that is both time and resource intensive. The Heat by Induction to Verify Extremes (HIVE) facility is designed to improve the practicalities of this form of component testing. It provides a faster turnaround for…
Preprint PublishedR.A. Tinguely P.G. Puglia N. Fil S. Dowson M. Porkolab A. Dvornova A. Fasoli M. Fitzgerald G.T.A. Huysmans M. Maslov S. Sharapov D. Testa JET Contributors
This paper presents a dedicated study of plasma-antenna (PA) coupling with the Alfvén Eigenmode Active Diagnostic (AEAD) in JET. Stable AEs and their resonant frequencies f, damping rates < 0, and toroidal mode numbers n are measured for various PA separations and limiter versus X-point magnetic cofigurations. Two stable AEs are observed to be …
Preprint PublishedR. F. Knights J. Benayas K. Sabin S. Ng A. Wohlers T. Tijssen D. Demange S. Willms D. Brennan
The ITER Tokamak Exhaust Processing (TEP) system relies on palladium membrane reactors (PMRs) for tritium recovery. The PMR consists of a palladium/silver membrane permeator filled with a catalyst, that can be used to recover hydrogen species (most importantly tritium) from methane and water impurities present in fusion reactor exhaust emissions…
Preprint PublishedT.L. Martin A.D. Warren D. Kumar A. Siberry R. Springell R. Holmes R. Clark L. Platts R. Burrows C. Harrington M. Gorley E. Surrey S. Rowthu P. Grundler S. Ritter
The next generations of nuclear fusion reactors, including ITER and DEMO, will consider several different cooling systems for heat dissipation, power generation and tritium breeding. This includes the water-cooled lithium-lead blanket (WCLL) design, which bears significant similarities to the water-cooled circuit in a pressurised water fission reac…
PreprintE. Organ S. Ha J. Holt G. Keech J. Keep C. Shaw A. Wilde
A study into the viability of a double null concept for DEMO has been undertaken as part of the work to address Key Design Integration Issues (KDIIs) within the DEMO powerplant. The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a double null architecture, featuring split blanket segments to enable a wider range of maintenance options…
PreprintJohn Waterhouse
The JET control and data acquisition system (CODAS) is an integrated system that provides all the pulse based and continuous data acquisition, real time and slow control and control room interfaces for JET. It has a long history, dating back to the beginning of JET in 1980. It utilises both commercially available hardware along with many in-house m…
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