Modelling performed for predictions of fusion power in JET DTE2: overview and lessons learnt

J Garcia, FJ Casson, L Frassinetti, D Gallart… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
For more than a decade, an unprecedented predict-first activity has been carried in order to
predict the fusion power and provide guidance to the second Deuterium–Tritium (D–T) …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress on spherical torus research

M Ono, R Kaita - Physics of Plasmas, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The spherical torus or spherical tokamak (ST) is a member of the tokamak family with its
aspect ratio (A= R 0/a) reduced to A∼ 1.5, well below the normal tokamak operating range …

Tokamak with reactor technologies (TRT): concept, missions, key distinctive features and expected characteristics

AV Krasilnikov, SV Konovalov, EN Bondarchuk… - Plasma Physics …, 2021 - Springer
Important progress in the development of high-temperature superconductors (HTSC) of the
second group made it possible to design the quasi-stationary tokamak with reactor …

Experiments in high-performance JET plasmas in preparation of second harmonic ICRF heating of tritium in ITER

MJ Mantsinen, P Jacquet, E Lerche, D Gallart… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The reference ion cyclotron resonance frequency (ICRF) heating schemes for ITER
deuterium–tritium (DT) plasmas at the full magnetic field of 5.3 T are second harmonic …

Energetic ions in ITER plasmas

SD Pinches, IT Chapman, PW Lauber, HJC Oliver… - Physics of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
This paper discusses the behaviour and consequences of the expected populations of
energetic ions in ITER plasmas. It begins with a careful analytic and numerical consideration …

Isotope scaling of the H mode power threshold on JET

E Righi, DV Bartlett, JP Christiansen… - Nuclear …, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
Results are presented from a series of dedicated experiments carried out on JET in tritium,
DT, deuterium and hydrogen plasmas to determine the dependence of the H mode power …

Physics basis for the ICRF system of the SPARC tokamak

Y Lin, JC Wright, SJ Wukitch - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) heating will be the sole auxiliary heating method
on SPARC for both full-field (Bt0~ 12 T) D–T operation and reduced field (Bt0~ 8 T) D–D …

Fast-ion velocity distributions in JET measured by collective Thomson scattering

H Bindslev, JA Hoekzema, J Egedal, JA Fessey… - Physical review …, 1999 - APS
Results on fast ion diagnosis by collective Thomson scattering at JET are presented. 400
kW, 2 mm radiation was scattered in plasmas with energetic proton minority populations …

Characterization and performance of a field aligned ion cyclotron range of frequency antenna in Alcator C-Mod

SJ Wukitch, ML Garrett, R Ochoukov, JL Terry… - Physics of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Ion cyclotron range of frequency (ICRF) heating is expected to provide auxiliary heating for
ITER and future fusion reactors where high Z metallic plasma facing components (PFCs) are …

Bulk ion heating with ICRH in JET DT plasmas

DFH Start, J Jacquinot, V Bergeaud… - Nuclear …, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
Reactor relevant ICRH scenarios have been assessed during DT experiments on the JET
tokamak using H mode divertor discharges with ITER-like shapes and safety factors …