Physics of runaway electrons in tokamaks

BN Breizman, P Aleynikov, EM Hollmann… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Of all electrons, runaway electrons have long been recognized in the fusion community as a
distinctive population. They now attract special attention as a part of ITER mission …

Dust and powder in fusion plasmas: Recent developments in theory, modeling, and experiments

S Ratynskaia, A Bortolon, SI Krasheninnikov - Reviews of Modern Plasma …, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, we present a brief historic overview of the research on dust in fusion devices
with carbon plasma-facing components and then highlight the most recent developments in …

Disruptions in ITER and strategies for their control and mitigation

M Lehnen, K Aleynikova, PB Aleynikov… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Elsevier
The thermal and electromagnetic loads related to disruptions in ITER are substantial and
require careful design of tokamak components to ensure they reach the projected lifetime …

MHD stability, operational limits and disruptions

TC Hender, JC Wesley, J Bialek, A Bondeson… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Progress in the area of MHD stability and disruptions, since the publication of the 1999 ITER
Physics Basis document (1999 Nucl. Fusion 39 2137–2664), is reviewed. Recent theoretical …

Design and first applications of the ITER integrated modelling & analysis suite

F Imbeaux, SD Pinches, JB Lister, Y Buravand… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The ITER Integrated Modelling & Analysis Suite (IMAS) will support both plasma
operation and research activities on the ITER tokamak experiment. The IMAS will be …

A brief history of negative triangularity tokamak plasmas

A Marinoni, O Sauter, S Coda - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2021 - Springer
This review is devoted to tokamak plasmas with a cross sectional shape featuring negative
triangularity, which appear to hold great promise as a candidate reactor configuration owing …

[HTML][HTML] Plasma-wall interaction impact of the ITER re-baseline

RA Pitts, A Loarte, T Wauters, M Dubrov… - Nuclear Materials and …, 2024 - Elsevier
To mitigate the impact of technical delays, provide a more rationalized approach to the
safety demonstration and move forward as rapidly as possible to a reactor relevant materials …

Disruption scenarios, their mitigation and operation window in ITER

M Sugihara, M Shimada, H Fujieda, Y Gribov… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The impacts of plasma disruptions on ITER have been investigated in detail to confirm the
robustness of the design of the machine to the potential consequential loads. The loads …

Plasma operation and control

Y Gribov, D Humphreys, K Kajiwara, EA Lazarus… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The ITER plasma control system has the same functional scope as the control systems in
present tokamaks. These are plasma operation scenario sequencing, plasma basic control …

Runaway electrons in magnetic turbulence and runaway current termination in tokamak discharges

R Yoshino, S Tokuda - Nuclear Fusion, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
The behaviour of runaway electrons in three types of magnetic turbulence in tokamak
discharges is reviewed:(a) micromagnetic turbulence,(b) low-m/n magnetic islands in a sea …