Dust in magnetic fusion devices

SI Krasheninnikov, RD Smirnov… - Plasma Physics and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews recent results of the study of dust in magnetic fusion devices.
Assessment of the role of dust in current fusion devices and ITER is presented. Dust …

Data on erosion and hydrogen fuel retention in Beryllium plasma-facing materials

G De Temmerman, K Heinola, D Borodin… - Nuclear Materials and …, 2021 - Elsevier
ITER will use beryllium as a plasma-facing material in the main chamber, covering a total
surface area of about 620 m 2. Given the importance of beryllium erosion and co-deposition …

Progress of the CFETR design

G Zhuang, GQ Li, J Li, YX Wan, Y Liu, XL Wang… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Chinese Fusion Engineering Testing Reactor (CFETR), complementing the
ITER facility, is aiming to demonstrate fusion energy production up to 200 MW initially and to …

Edge-localized-modes in tokamaks

AW Leonard - Physics of Plasmas, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Edge-localized-modes (ELMs) are a ubiquitous feature of H-mode in tokamaks. When
gradients in the H-mode transport barrier grow to exceed the MHD stability limit the ELM …

Heuristic drift-based model of the power scrape-off width in low-gas-puff H-mode tokamaks

RJ Goldston - Nuclear Fusion, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
A heuristic model for the plasma scrape-off width in low-gas-puff tokamak H-mode plasmas
is introduced. Grad B and curv B drifts into the scrape-off layer (SOL) are balanced against …

Physics of ultimate detachment of a tokamak divertor plasma

SI Krasheninnikov, AS Kukushkin - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2017 - cambridge.org
The basic physics of the processes playing the most important role in divertor plasma
detachment is reviewed. The models used in the two-dimensional edge plasma transport …

Surface heat loads on the ITER divertor vertical targets

JP Gunn, S Carpentier-Chouchana, F Escourbiac… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The heating of tungsten monoblocks at the ITER divertor vertical targets is calculated using
the heat flux predicted by three-dimensional ion orbit modelling. The monoblocks are …

A long-pulse high-confinement plasma regime in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak

J Li, HY Guo, BN Wan, XZ Gong, YF Liang, GS Xu… - Nature physics, 2013 - nature.com
High-performance and long-pulse operation is a crucial goal of current magnetic fusion
research. Here, we demonstrate a high-confinement plasma regime known as an H-mode …

Developing structural, high-heat flux and plasma facing materials for a near-term DEMO fusion power plant: The EU assessment

D Stork, P Agostini, JL Boutard, D Buckthorpe… - Journal of nuclear …, 2014 - Elsevier
The findings of the EU 'Materials Assessment Group'(MAG), within the 2012 EU Fusion
Roadmap exercise, are discussed. MAG analysed the technological readiness of structural …

I-mode: an H-mode energy confinement regime with L-mode particle transport in Alcator C-Mod

DG Whyte, AE Hubbard, JW Hughes… - Nuclear …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
An improved energy confinement regime, I-mode, is studied in Alcator C-Mod, a compact
high-field divertor tokamak using ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRFs) auxiliary …