S. Von Tiedemann D Collins M. Gilbert I. Kodeli
Predictions of material activity in commercial fusion conditions predominantly rely on computational methods, due to a lack of data on long-term e ects of high-energy neutron irradiation on structural steels. Consequently, this could result in a bias due to uncertainties in nu…
Preprint PublishedH. Wu P. Shi F. Subba H. Sun M. Wischmeier R. Zanino the ASDEX Upgrade Team
The High Field High Density Region (HFSFD) has been experimentally observed in both divertor and limiter tokamak devices. In order to numerically reproduced the HFSHD region in the limiter tokamak device J-TEXT, we first performed SOLPS-ITER simulations on the J-TEXT limiter tokamak with the activation of drifts, which is associated with the HFSHD …
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Spherical tokamaks are key for the successful design of operating scenarios of future fusion reactors in the areas of divertor physics, neutral beam current drive and fast ion physics. MAST Upgrade, which has successfully concluded its first experimental campaign, was specifically designed to address the role of the radial gradient of the fast ion…
PreprintM. Fitzgerald R. Dumont D. Keeling J. Mailloux S. Sharapov M. Dreval A. Figueiredo R. Coelho J. Ferreira P. Rodrigues F. Nabais D. Borba Ž. Štancar G. Szepesi R.A. Tinguely N Fil P.G. Puglia H.J.C. Oliver V. Kiptily M. Baruzzo M. Lennholm P. Siren J. Garcia C.F. Maggi
A toroidal Alfven eigenmode (TAE) has been observed driven by alpha particles in the Joint European Torus (JET). The observation was made in dedicated deuterium-tritium experiments where radio-frequency (RF) heating was absent, in the so-called “afterglow” period when neutral beam heating was removed. Agreement with reduced and perturbative mod…
PreprintC Cowley A Q Kuang D Moulton J D Lore J Canik M Umansky M Wigram S Ballinger B Lipschultz
The design and understanding of alternative divertor configurations may be crucial for achieving acceptable steady-state heat and particle material loads for magnetic confinement fusion reactors. Multiple x-point alternative divertor geometries such as Snowflakes and Xpoint targets have great potential in reducing power loads, but have not yet b…
Preprint PublishedS. Saarelma J.W. Connor P. Bilkova P. Bohm A.R. Field L. Frassinetti R. Fridstrom A. Kirk JET Contributors*
The neutral ionisation model proposed by R J Groebner et al. (Phys Plasmas 9 2134 (2002)) to determine the plasma density profile in the H-mode pedestal, extended to include charge exchange processes in the pedestal stimulated by the ideas of Mahdavi et al. ((Phys Plasmas 10 3984 (2003)). The model is then teste…
Preprint PublishedV.H. Hall-Chen F.I. Parra J.C. Hillesheim J. Ruiz Ruiz N.A. Crocker P. Shi H.S. Chu S.J. Freethy L.A. Kogan W.A. Peebles Q.T. Pratt T.L. Rhodes K. Ronald R. Scannell D.C. Speirs S. Storment J. Trisno
Doppler reflectometry, or the Doppler backscattering (DBS) diagnostic, enables the measurement of turbulent density fluctuations of intermediate length scales, typically $10 gtrsim k_perp rho_i gtrsim 1$; here $k_perp$ is the turbulence’s wavenumber and $rho_i$ is the ion gyroradius. The backscattered power is proportional to the power of the tur…
PreprintL. Howlett I. Cziegler S.J. Freethy H. Meyer
Spherical tokamaks are known to differ from conventional tokamaks in a number of physics areas, but our understanding is limited by a comparative lack of experimental data. A comprehensive study of the density dependence of the H-mode power threshold PLH on the Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) is presented, mapping out the low-density a…
PreprintJ. Davies H. Robinson W. Blyth A. Wagner J. Naish S. Bradnam R. Worral
The Active Cells Facility will be the world’s largest hot cell and will be used to process radioactive waste generated in the operation of the European Spallation Source. Several innovative technologies and approaches have been developed for the ESS Active Cells, drawing on advances made in remote handling techniques and technology from fusion re…
PreprintT. Tijssen B. Butler
The tritium inventory of future fusion power plants needs to be monitored in the fuel cycle for several reasons; to comply with limits imposed by environment and safety regulators, adhere to practises required by nuclear regulators and for process control purposes. Fulfilling all these requirements leads to a comprehensive list of locations in the …
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