Conference Papers

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2020
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)10
31st Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 20 - 25 September 2020

In 2019 JET carried out a very successful Deuterium-Deuterium campaign, referred to as C38, producing a total of 3.751019 DD neutrons. During this campaign, a series of experiments were implemented to record the neutron fluence at positions close and far from the source and along shielding penetrations. Measurements were performed usi…

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2020
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)11
28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Nice, France, 10-15th May 2021

Dimensionless experiments test the invariance of plasma physics to changes in the dimensional plasma parameters, when the canonical dimensionless parameters are conserved [1], [2]. Isotope identity experiments exploit the change in isotope ion mass A = mi/mp to obtain plasmas with identical dimensionless profiles in the same tokamak. However, condi…

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2021
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)13
28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Nice, France, 10-15th May 2021

JET has investigated one the key issues for the baseline scenario in ITER, the integration of a radiative divertor for heat load control with the use of neon and nitrogen as seed impurity. A characterization of the choice of the impurity seed on plasma confinement, neutrons, pedestal MHD stability, pedestal instabilities, core transport is given…

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2021
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)15
28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Nice, France, 10-15th May 2021

In preparation for high fusion plasma performance operation of the newly operating spherical tokamak MAST-U, the equilibrium and stability properties of plasmas in the MAST database, as well as projections for MAST-U, are explored. The disruption event characterization and forecasting (DECAF) code is utilized to map disruptions in MAST, particul…

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2020
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)17
28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Nice, France, 10-15th May 2021

The paper reviews recent SOLPS modelling of long-legged divertors carried out by UKAEA and the University of York. The required upstream density required for detachment is predicted to scale inversely with the total flux expansion of the divertor, but experimentally this was not found to be the case on TCV. Interpretative SOLPS-ITER modelling sugge…

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2021
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)18
28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Nice, France, 10-15th May 2021

As the EUROfusion EU-DEMO design programme approaches the transition between the pre-conceptual and conceptual design phase the systems code PROCESS has been improved to incorporate more detailed plasma physics, engineering and analysis modules. Unlike many systems codes PROCESS combines the physics modelling with both technology and costs analysis…

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2021
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)19
28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Nice, France, 10-15th May 2021

Control of plasma H:D isotope mix using solely shallow pellets (in H or D) was demonstrated in recent experiments, attaining ~50%:50% ratio. The isotope mix propagates from the edge to the core on the confinement timescale. Isotope dependence of energy confinement is within error bar to scaling laws. A dataset is collected for different pellet s…

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2021
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)16
28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Nice, France, 10-15th May 2021

A comparison between different alternative divertor configurations, in terms of benefits and additional complexity is carried out for the European DEMO. A synergetic approach between different aspects of the problem, including physics and engineering, provides new insight on the capabilities of the new divertors to handle the exhausted power wit…

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2019
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)09
PHYSOR 2020, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 29 March - 2 April 2020

Recent studies of the neutron irradiation conditions predicted in the plasma-exposed first wall of a conceptual design of fusion DEMO power plant implementing the SPECTRA-PKA code have shown the importance of taking into consideration per-channel analysis of the high-energy threshold reactions for an accurate evaluation of their contribution to …

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2019
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)07
PHYSOR 2020, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 29 March - 2 April 2020

The public perception of fusion power is that it will provide a clean source of abundant nuclear energy. This is not wholly accurate. Currently planned fusion reactors will use the deuterium-tritium (DT) reaction for power generation. This reaction produces 14 MeV neutrons which, as they cannot be magnetically confined, impinge upon the reactor str…

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