Overview of JET results for optimising ITER operation

J Mailloux, N Abid, K Abraham, P Abreu… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The JET programme in 2019–2020 focussed on preparing for the exploitation of JET's
currently unique capabilities, tritium handling and ITER-like wall (ILW: Be first wall and W …

Shattered pellet injection experiments at JET in support of the ITER disruption mitigation system design

S Jachmich, U Kruezi, M Lehnen, M Baruzzo… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A series of experiments have been executed at JET to assess the efficacy of the newly
installed shattered pellet injection (SPI) system in mitigating the effects of disruptions. Issues …

Plasma burn—mind the gap

H Meyer, STEP Plasma Team - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The programme to design plasma scenarios for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy
Production (STEP), a reactor concept aiming at net electricity production, seeks to exploit the …

Modeling the complete prevention of disruption-generated runaway electron beam formation with a passive 3D coil in SPARC

RA Tinguely, VA Izzo, DT Garnier, A Sundström… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The potential formation of multi-mega-ampere beams of relativistic'runaway'electrons (REs)
during sudden terminations of tokamak plasmas poses a significant challenge to the …

A novel path to runaway electron mitigation via deuterium injection and current-driven MHD instability

C Paz-Soldan, C Reux, K Aleynikova… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Relativistic electron (RE) beams at high current density (low safety factor, qa) yet very low
free-electron density accessed with D 2 secondary injection in the DIII-D and JET tokamak …

Runaway electron deconfinement in SPARC and DIII-D by a passive 3D coil

VA Izzo, I Pusztai, K Särkimäki, A Sundström… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The operation of a 3D coil—passively driven by the current quench (CQ) loop voltage—for
the deconfinement of runaway electrons (REs) is modeled for disruption scenarios in the …

Design of passive and structural conductors for tokamaks using thin-wall eddy current modeling

AF Battey, C Hansen, D Garnier, D Weisberg… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A new three-dimensional electromagnetic modeling tool (ThinCurr) has been developed
using the existing PSI-Tet finite-element code in support of conducting structure design work …

Comparison of disruption mitigation from shattered pellet injection with massive gas injection on J-TEXT

Y Li, ZY Chen, W Yan, YN Wei, RH Tong, ZF Lin… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The mitigation of disruption damage is essential to the safe operation of a large-scale
tokamak. In order to achieve the safe operation of ITER, the shattered pellet injection (SPI) …

Hot-tail runaway seed landscape during the thermal quench in tokamaks

I Svenningsson, O Embreus, M Hoppe, SL Newton… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Runaway electron populations seeded from the hot tail generated by the rapid cooling in
plasma-terminating disruptions are a serious concern for next-step tokamak devices such as …

Bayesian optimization of massive material injection for disruption mitigation in tokamaks

I Pusztai, I Ekmark, H Bergström… - Journal of Plasma …, 2023 - cambridge.org
A Bayesian optimization framework is used to investigate scenarios for disruptions mitigated
with combined deuterium and neon injection in ITER. The optimization cost function takes …