UKAEA Journals

H. J. Sun RJ. Goldston A.Huber XQ. Xu J. Flanagan DC. McDonald E. de la Luna M. Maslov J. Harrison F. Militello J. Fessy S. Cramp JET Contributors

A study of a dataset of JET plasma with the Be/W ITER-like wall (JET-ILW) shows that reaching the edge MHD ballooning limit leads to confinement degradation. However, unlike JET plasma with a carbon wall (JET-C), the JET-ILW plasma stays in a marginal dithering phase for a relatively long period, associated with a higher a ( 20%) H-mode density lim…

CF Maggi H Weisen FJ Casson F Auriemma R Lorenzini H Nordman E Delabie F Eriksson J Flanagan D Keeling D King L Horvath S Menmuir A Salmi G Sips T Tala I Voitsekhovich JET Contributors

NBI-heated L-mode plasmas have been obtained in JET with the Be/W ITER-like wall (JET-ILW) in H and D, with matched profiles of the dimensionless plasma parameters in the plasma core confinement region and same Ti/Te and Zeff. The achieved isotope identity indicates that the confinement scale invariance principle is satisfied in the core confine…

L. Horvath C.F. Maggi A. Chankin S. Saarelma A.R. Field E. Belonohy A. Boboc G. Corrigan E.G. Delabie J. Flanagan L. Frassinetti C. Giroud D. Harting D. Keeling D. King M. Maslov G.F. Matthews S. Menmuir S.A. Silburn J. Simpson A.C.C Sips H. Weisen K.J. Gibson and JET Contributors

The pedestal structure, ELM losses and linear MHD stability are analysed in a series of JET-ILW H and D type I ELMy H-mode plasmas. The pedestal pressure (pPED) is typically higher in D than in H at the same input power, with the difference mainly due to lower density in H than in D. At the same input power, the pedestal electron pressur…

M. Maslov A. Boboc M. Brix J. Flanagan M. Romanelli C. Price JET contributors

This work describes the behaviour of the global energy and particle confinement on JET observed in a massive database of H-mode plasmas covering almost whole lifetime of JET operations, both with carbon and metal wall. The analysis is focused on type I ELMy H-modes in stationary phases. It is shown that plasma density in that regime is determined m…

A. R. Field I. Balboa P. Drewelow J. Flanagan C. Guillemaut J. R. Harrison A. Huber V. Huber B. Lipschultz G. Matthews A. Meigs J. Schmitz M. Stamp N. Walkden JET contributors

The dynamics and stability of divertor detachment in N2 seeded, type-I, ELMy H-mode plasmas with dominant NBI heating in the JET-ILW device is studied by means of an integrated analysis of diagnostic data from several systems, classifying data relative to the ELM times. It is thereby possible to study the response of the detachment evolution to the…

M. J. Leyland M. N. A. Beurskens J. C. Flanagan L. Frassinetti K. J. Gibson M. Kempenaars M. Maslov R. Scannell JET Contributors

The Joint European Torus (JET) high resolution Thomson scattering (HRTS) system measures radial electron temperature and density profiles. One of the key capabilities of this diagnostic is measuring the steep pressure gradient, termed the pedestal, at the edge of JET plasmas. The pedestal is susceptible to limiting instabilities, such as Edge Local…

J. C. Flanagan M. Sertoli M. Bacharis G. F. Matthews P. C. de Vries A. Widdowson I. H. Coffey G. Arnoux B. Sieglin S. Brezinsek J. W. Coenen S. Marsen T. Craciunescu A. Murari D. Harting A. Cackett E. Hodille JET-EFDA Contributors

Recent studies dedicated to the characterisation of in-vessel dust in JET with the new ITER-like wall (ILW) show that dust levels are orders of magnitude lower compared with the latter stages of the carbon-wall (CW) period and are decreasing with operational time. Less than 1 g of dust was recovered in a recent inspection, compared with more than 2…

D.M. Harting S. Wiesen M. Groth S. Brezinsek G. Corrigan G. Arnoux P. Boerner S. Devaux J. Flanagan A. Järvinen S. Marsen D. Reiter JET-EFDA contributors

We present the application of an improved EDGE2D-EIRENE SOL transport model for the ELM phase utilizing kinetic correction of the sheath-heat-transmission coefficients and heat-flux-limiting factors used in fluid SOL modelling. With a statistical analysis over a range of similar Type-I ELMy H-mode discharges performed at the end of the first JET IT…

M. Maslov M.N.A. Beurskens M. Kempenaars J. Flanagan

The LIDAR Thomson scattering concept was proposed in 1983 and then implemented for the first time on the JET tokamak in 1987. A number of modifications were performed and published in 1995, but since then no major changes were made for almost 15 years. In 2010 a refurbishment of the diagnostic was started, with as main goals to improve its performa…

L. Frassinetti M. N. A. Beurskens R. Scannell T. H. Osborne J. Flanagan et al.