UKAEA Journals

V. K. Zotta L. Garzotti F. J. Casson D. Frigione F. Koechl E. Lerche P. Lomas F. Rimini M. Sertoli D. Van Eester R. Gatto C. Mazzotta G. Pucella

The fusion performance of ELMy H-mode DT plasmas with q95 = 3 and \\beta_N = 1.8 (also referred to as medium-\\beta_N baseline scenario in the rest of this paper) are predicted with the JINTRAC suite of codes and the QuaLiKiZ transport model. The predictions are based on the analysis of DT plasmas from the first DT campaign on JET in 1997 (DTE1…

D. Galassi C. Theiler T. Body F. Manke P. Micheletti J. Omotani M. Wiesenberger M. Baquero-Ruiz I. Furno M. Giacomin E. Laribi F. Militello P. Ricci A. Stegmeir P. Tamain H. Bufferand G. Ciraolo H. De Oliveira A. F. Fasoli V. Naulin S. L. Newton N. Offeddu D. Sales Oliveira E. Serre N. Vianello

Transport processes around the magnetic X-point of tokamaks, such as turbulence and mean-field drifts, are scarcely understood and difficult to investigate in experiments. In this paper, we explore the dynamics in a newly developed X-point scenario on the basic toroidal plasma device TORPEX and use it to validate plasma edge turbulence codes. In-si…

A J T HolmesR McAdams

A model is presented for space charge neutralisation of positive ion beams. The model is used for the particular case of the beams used for magnetic based fusion applications. The beams consist, after a gas neutraliser, of ions and atoms at different energies. Account is taken of the co…

A. Litnovsky I. Duran J.W. Coenen Yu. Gasparyan M.R. Gilbert E. Hollmann Ch. Linsmeier S. Nogami C.H. Skinner S. Zinkle

The chapter is devoted to materials used in controlled fusion facilities. Material solutions for magnetic confinement fusion devices and inertial confinement fusion facilities are described. Fusion materials have to preserve their performance often under extremely harsh conditions characterized by intensive particle fluxes, high levels of neutron i…

Yichen Qian Mark Gilbert Lucile Dezerald David Cereceda

Tungsten and tungsten alloys are being considered as leading candidates for structural and functional materials in future fusion energy devices. The most attractive properties of tungsten for the design of magnetic and inertial fusion energy reactors are its high melting point, high thermal conductivity, low sputtering yield and low long-term dispo…

A. Litnovsky F. Klein X. Tan J. Schmitz J. W. Coenen C. Linsmeier J. Gonzalez-Julian M. Bram I. Povstugar T. Morgan Y. M. Gasparyan A. Suchkov D. Bachurina D. Nguyen-Manh M. Gilbert D. Sobieraj J. S. Wróbel P. Bittner A. Reuban

Self-passivating Metal Alloys with Reduced Thermo-oxidation (SMART) are under development for the primary application as plasma-facing materials of the first wall in a fusion DEMOnstration power plant (DEMO). SMART materials must combine the suppressed oxidation in case of an accident and an acceptable plasma performance during the regular operatio…

Triestino Minniti Heather Lewtas

J. S Allcock S. A. Silburn R. M. Sharples J .R. Harrison N. J. Conway J. W. M. Vernimmen

In this paper, the pixelated phase mask (PPM) method of interferometry is applied to coherence imag-ing (CI) — a family of passive, narrowband spectro-polarimetric imaging techniques for diagnosing plasmas. Compared to designs using a linear phase mask, PPM is more compact, rugged and has a higher spatial resolution (averaged across both image di…

Li Li Yueqiang Liu Guoliang Xia Y. F. Wang Q. B. Luan W. D. Zhang F. C. Zhong

A recently updated version of the MARS-F code [Y. Q. Liu et al. Phys. Plasmas 7, 3681 (2000); L. Li et al. Phys. Plasmas 25, 082512 (2018); G. L. Xia et al. Nucl. Fusion 59, 126035 (2019)] is utilized to numerically investigate the plasma screening effect on the applied resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) field, assuming various equilibrium flo…

M. Brank R. A. Pitts G. Simič P. Lamalle M. Kocan F. Koechl Y. Gribov V. Polli L. Kos

Ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) is one of the three additional heating schemes to be deployed on ITER. Its two antenna arrays, installed on the outboard midplane, will deliver 20 MW of RF power in the 40-55 MHz frequency range. The plasma-facing component of …