Demonstration of safe termination of megaampere relativistic electron beams in tokamaks

C Reux, C Paz-Soldan, P Aleynikov, V Bandaru… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
For the first time it is experimentally demonstrated on the JET tokamak that a combination of
a low impurity concentration bulk plasma and large magnetohydrodynamic instabilities is …

Runaway electron beam generation and mitigation during disruptions at JET-ILW

C Reux, V Plyusnin, B Alper, D Alves, B Bazylev… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Disruptions are a major operational concern for next generation tokamaks, including ITER.
They may generate excessive heat loads on plasma facing components, large …

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 …

Three-dimensional non-linear magnetohydrodynamic modeling of massive gas injection triggered disruptions in JET

A Fil, E Nardon, M Hoelzl, GT Huijsmans, F Orain… - Physics of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
JOREK 3D non-linear MHD simulations of a D 2 Massive Gas Injection (MGI) triggered
disruption in JET are presented and compared in detail to experimental data. The MGI …

Post-disruptive runaway electron beams in the COMPASS tokamak

M Vlainic, J Mlynar, J Cavalier, V Weinzettl… - Journal of Plasma …, 2015 - cambridge.org
For ITER-relevant runaway electron studies, such as suppression, mitigation, termination
and/or control of a runaway beam, it is important to obtain the runaway electrons after the …

Overview of the JET results

F Romanelli - Nuclear Fusion, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the installation of an ITER-like wall, the JET programme has focused on the
consolidation of ITER design choices and the preparation for ITER operation, with a specific …

Collisional-radiative non-equilibrium impurity treatment for JOREK simulations

D Hu, GTA Huijsmans, E Nardon… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A collisional-radiative non-equilibrium impurity treatment for JOREK 3D nonlinear magneto-
hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations has been developed. The impurities are represented by …

[HTML][HTML] High heat flux limits of the fusion reactor water-cooled first wall

P Zacha, S Entler - Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
The water-cooled WCLL blanket is one of the possible candidates for the blanket of the
fusion power reactors. The plasma-facing first wall manufactured from the reduced-activation …

Toroidal modeling of runaway electron loss due to 3D fields in ITER

Y Liu, K Aleynikova, C Paz-Soldan, P Aleynikov… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Mitigation of runaway electrons (REs) by three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field
perturbations is numerically investigated for the ITER 15 MA baseline D–T scenario, utilizing …

Full suppression of runaway electron generation by the mode penetration of resonant magnetic perturbations during disruptions on J-TEXT

ZF Lin, ZY Chen, DW Huang, J Huang… - Plasma Physics and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The avoidance and suppression of runaway electron (RE) generation during disruptions is
of great importance for the safe operation of tokamaks. Massive gas injection is used to …