UKAEA Journals

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2019
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(19)25
"Control of H:D isotope mixture with pellets in JET"

Martin Valovic Y Baranov G Buchanan J Citrin E Delabie L Frassinetti J M Fontdecaba L Garzotti C Giroud R McKean E Lerche V Kiptily F Köchl M Marin M Maslov S Menmuir G Tvalashvili H Weisen the JET Contributors

Deuterium pellets are injected into initially pure hydrogen H-mode plasma in order to control H:D isotope mixture. The pellets are deposited in outer 20% of minor radius, similar to that expected in ITER creating transiently hollow electron density profiles. The isotope mixture of H:D ~ 45:55% is obtained in the core with pellet fuelling throughput…

Preprint Published
2019
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(19)23
"ITER Fuelling Requirements and Scenario Development for H, He and DT Through JINTRAC Integrated Modelling"

Elina Militello Asp Gerard Corrigan Paula da Silva Aresta Belo Luca Garzotti Derek Harting Florian Köchl Vassili Parail Mario Cavinato Alberto Loarte Michele Romanelli Roberta Sartori

We have modelled self-consistently the most efficient ways to fuel ITER Hydrogen (H), Helium (He) and Deuterium-Tritium (DT) plasmas with gas and/or pellet injection with the integrated core and 2D SOL/divertor suite of codes JINTRAC. As far as we are aware, for ITER this is the first time modelling of the entire plasma has been carried out to foll…

Preprint
2018
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(18)22
"Integrated core-SOL modelling of fuelling, density control and divertor heat loads for the flat-top phase of the ITER H-mode D-T scenario"

L. Garzotti P. Belo G. Corrigan D. Harting F. Köchl A. Loarte E. Militello Asp V. Parail R.Ambrosino M. Cavinato M. Mattei M. Romanelli R. Sartori M. Valovič

The operation of a tokamak designed to test the sustainability of a thermonuclear grade plasma like the International Tokamak Experimental Reactor (ITER) presents several challenges. Among them is the necessity of fuelling the plasma to reach the density required to generate enough fusion power to achieve Q = 10 and, at the same time, to protect th…

Preprint Published
2010
"Observation and analysis of pellet material ∇B drift on MAST"

L Garzotti L Baylor F Köchl B Pégourié M Valovic K B Axon J Dowling C Gurl G P Maddison H Nehme T O’Gorman A Patel M Price R Scannell M Walsh

Pellet material deposited in a tokamak plasma experiences a drift towards the low field side of the torus induced by the magnetic field gradient. Plasma fuelling in ITER relies on the beneficial effect of this drift to increase the pellet deposition depth and fuelling efficiency. It is therefore important to analyse this phenomenon in present machi…

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