High-power gyrotrons for electron cyclotron heating and current drive

MKA Thumm, GG Denisov, K Sakamoto… - Nuclear Fusion, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In many tokamak and stellarator experiments around the globe that are investigating energy
production via controlled thermonuclear fusion, electron cyclotron heating and current drive …

A review on the sub-THz/THz gyrotrons

N Kumar, U Singh, A Bera, AK Sinha - Infrared Physics & Technology, 2016 - Elsevier
A review on the sub-THz/THz gyrotrons is performed in this manuscript. The present
development status of gyrotrons can be divided into three streams for the sake of better …

On the physics guidelines for a tokamak DEMO

H Zohm, C Angioni, E Fable, G Federici… - Nuclear …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The physics base for the ITER Physics Design Guidelines is reviewed in view of application
to DEMO and areas are pointed out in which improvement is needed to arrive at a consistent …

Advances in the physics basis for the European DEMO design

R Wenninger, F Arbeiter, J Aubert, L Aho-Mantila… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In the European fusion roadmap, ITER is followed by a demonstration fusion power reactor
(DEMO), for which a conceptual design is under development. This paper reports the first …

Physics design of CFETR: determination of the device engineering parameters

B Wan, S Ding, J Qian, G Li, B Xiao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Chinese Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) based on the tokamak approach with
superconducting magnet technology is envisioned to provide 200-MW fusion power and …

TORBEAM 2.0, a paraxial beam tracing code for electron-cyclotron beams in fusion plasmas for extended physics applications

E Poli, A Bock, M Lochbrunner, O Maj, M Reich… - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
The paraxial WKB code TORBEAM (Poli, 2001) is widely used for the description of electron-
cyclotron waves in fusion plasmas, retaining diffraction effects through the solution of a set of …

Integrated modeling of CFETR hybrid scenario plasmas

J Chen, VS Chan, X Jian, X Zhang, Q Ren, G Li… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Demonstration of DEMO relevant fusion power (Pfus) level and tritium self-sufficiency are
two important goals of the China fusion engineering testing reactor (CFETR). In this work the …

Self-consistent modeling of CFETR baseline scenarios for steady-state operation

J Chen, X Jian, VS Chan, Z Li, Z Deng… - Plasma Physics and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Integrated modeling for core plasma is performed to increase confidence in the proposed
baseline scenario in the 0D analysis for the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor …

Integration concept of an Electron Cyclotron System in DEMO

T Franke, G Aiello, K Avramidis, C Bachmann… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The pre-conceptual layout for an electron cyclotron system (ECS) in DEMO is described. The
present DEMO ECS considers only equatorial ports for both plasma heating and …

[HTML][HTML] Design considerations for future DEMO gyrotrons: A review on related gyrotron activities within EUROfusion

J Jelonnek, G Aiello, S Alberti, K Avramidis… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Long-term options for a steady-state DEMOnstration power plant may require the availability
of gyrotrons with an operating frequency significantly above 200 GHz together with an RF …