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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)2892023
This paper reports the first experiment carried out in deuterium–tritium addressing the integration of a radiative divertor for heat-load control with good confinement. Neon seeding was carried out for the first time in a D–T plasma as part of the second D–T campaign of JET with its Be/W wall environment. The technical difficulties linked to …
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)2882023
Dedicated experiments were performed in JET DTE2 plasmas for obtaining α-particle bump-on-tail (BOT) distribution aiming at exciting Alfvén Eigenmodes (AEs) in baseline tokamak plasma scenario with safety factor q(0)~1. NBI-only heating with modulated power was used so that fusion-born α-particles were the only ions present in the MeV energy ran…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)2872023
Fast-particle driven Alfvén Eigenmodes have been observed in low-collisionality discharges with off-axis neutral beam injection (NBI), electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) and a reduced toroidal magnetic field. During NBI and ECRH, toroidicity induced Alfvén Eigenmodes (TAEs) appear in frequency bands close to 200 kHz and energetic-part…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)2862023
A forward modeling technique is developed for determining the characteristic features of observed MHD modes from the line-of-sight data of the soft x-ray (SXR) diagnostics with 64 vertical lines-of-sight in theTokamak `a Configuration Variable tokamak. Using diagnostics with excellent spatial resolution, this technique is shown to evaluate the polo…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)2802022
In this work a spatial dimension is added to the description of radiative detachment in MAST-U super-X divertor plasmas. This magnetic configuration is hypothesized to achieve improved heat load spreading at the divertor target and more particle-, heat- and momentum losses through plasma-neutral interactions than conventional exhaust solutions. Fil…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)2792022
Spherical Tokamaks (STs) with a high normalised plasma pressure parameter are promising alternative pathways for net gain magnetic fusion reactors. Toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes (TAEs) excited via wave-particle resonances by fusion-born alpha-particles are of major concern for burning deuterium-tritium (D-T) plasmas in magnetic fusion as TAEs ca…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)2772021
In a snowflake (SF) divertor, two magnetic field nulls are placed close to each other, creating four strike points (SPs) compared to two in a standard X-point divertor. In preparation for MAST-U experiments, magnetic configurations with the standard and SF divertors with various locations and separation distances of the nulls were modeled using …
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)2742021
Efficient plasma core fuelling is a key issue for achieving steady-state scenarios in large magnetic confinement fusion devices. At present, the most promising technique to achieve this goal is the injection of cryogenic pellets. In this paper, the injection of nominal pellets into standard plasma scenarios in the tokamak ITER and the ste…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)2682023
In the initial stages of ITER operation, ELM mitigation systems need to be commissioned. This requires controlled flat-top operation in type-I ELMy H-mode regimes. Hydrogen or helium plasma discharges are used exclusively in these stages to ensure no production of neutrons from fusion reactions. With the expected higher L-H power threshold of hy…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)2672024
The first generation of nuclear fusion reactors is expected to operate using a mixture of deuterium(D) and tritium(T) fuel. Controlling the D:T ratio is a promising option to control the fusion burn rate. The Joint European Torus (JET), as the only operational tokamak which can use tritium, is uniquely placed to test th…
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