Conference Papers

S. Jimenez D. Bookless R. Nath W.J. Leong

In order to reach commercially-relevant availability future fusion power plants must have highly efficient maintenance systems. On the other hand, as radiation levels increase so too will the number of maintenance tasks that must be performed without human access.  To meet these conflicting constraints remote maintenance systems must significantly…

David Andres Marta Serrano Rebeca Hernandez Yiqiang Wang Mark Richardson

The use of small specimen test techniques (SSTT) to determine mechanical properties of irradiated materials has been studied over the previous decades both in fission and fusion programs, but also to characterise and optimise new materials by nuclear and non-nuclear communities. Currently a number of activities are running that focus on the standar…

Andrew Davis Aleksander Dubas Rubin Otin

The field of fusion energy is about to enter the ITER era, for the first time we will have access to a device capable of producing 500 MW of fusion power, with plasmas lasting more than 300 seconds and with core tem- perature…

J. Leland S. Elmore A. Kirk H. v/d Meiden. J. Scholten S. Allan J. W. Bradley

Measurements made using flush-mounted Langmuir probes (FMPs) in tokamaks are difficult to interpret when operating at grazing angles of magnetic field incidence due to the effects of sheath expansion on the probe collection area. The super-X divertor on the upgraded Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST-U) will have very shallow angles of magnetic fi…

J. Keep T. Berry S. Budden B. Chuilon B. Colling E. Flynn S. Ha C. Jackson G. Keech W. Leong G. Mathew E. Organ C. Shaw A. Wilde

DEMO is a key part of the EU fusion roadmap, and the programme reaches the end of the pre-conceptual phase with a gate review in 2020. As part of the work to complete this phase, eight Key Design Integration Issues (KDII’s) have been identified as critical to the programme. Two of these KDII’s identified a requirement for a more detailed archit…

M. Coleman S. McIntosh J. Shimwell A. Davis

The creation of 3-D CAD models is one of the key steps in the fusion reactor design cycle, and is very much a recurring process. A common division of labour sees engineers, draughtspeople, and analysts iterate ideas, requirements and constraints, 3-D CAD model(s), and analyses, respectively, to iteratively converge upon a working design. Whilst thi…

C. Challis R. Dumont D. Frigione L. Garzotti J. Graves E Lerche J. Mailloux M. Mantsinen F. Rimini F. Casson A. Czarneka R. Felton J. Garcia C. Giroud E. Joffrin H.-T. Kim M. Lennholm P. Lomas C. Lowry L. Meneses I Nunes et al.

The JET exploitation plan foresees D-T operations in 2019-2020. With respect to the first D-T campaign in 1998, when JET was equipped with a carbon wall, the experiments will be conducted in presence of a beryllium-tungsten ITER-like wall and will benefit from an extended and improved set of diagnostics and higher available additional heating power…

C. Giroud N. Aiba F. Militello C. Challis A. Chankin B. Lomanowski D. Hatch J. Harrison D. Frigione D. Moulton S. Pamela F. Parra J. Parisi I. Putzai D. Refy S. Saarelma C. Stavrou B. Tal E. Belonohy S. Brezinsek S. Buller C. Bowman E. Delabie A. Field J. Fontdecaba A. Huber A. Meigs S. Menmuir J. Simpson JET Contributors

J.C. Hillesheim E. Delabie E. Solano C.F. Maggi H. Meyer E. Belonohy I. Carvalho E. de la Luna A. Drenik M. Gelfusa C. Giroud J. Hobirk A.E. Hubbard A. Kappatou H.T. Kim A. Huber E. Lerche B. Lomanowski M. Mantsinen S. Menmuir I. Nunes E. Peluso F. Rimini P.A. Schneider M. Stamp G. Verdoolaege JET Contributors

Unraveling the conditions that permit access to H-mode continues to be an unresolved physics issue for tokamaks, and accurate extrapolations are important for planning ITER operations and DEMO design constraints. Experiments have been performed in JET, with the ITER-like W/Be wall, to increase the confidence of predictions for the L-H transition po…

B. Geiger A. N. Karpushov S. Sharapov R. Akers A. Bock M. Dunne B. Duval M. Fontana L. Giannone J. Hobirk C. Hopf A.S. Jacobsen D. Keeling P. Lauber C. Marini P. ZS. Poloskei M. Salewski O. Sauter P. A. Schneider D. Testa A.J. Van Vuuren M. Willensdorfer TCV Team ASDEX Upgrade Team EUROfusion MST15 Team

The fast-ion transport has been investigated in low-collisionality discharges at ASDEX Upgrade and TCV using offaxis neutral beams. In both devices Alfven eigenmode activity was observed which does, however, not strongly affect the global fast-ion confinement. In contrast, charge exchange losses have been identified to have a strong effect. At TCV …