Blanket/first wall challenges and required R&D on the pathway to DEMO

M Abdou, NB Morley, S Smolentsev, A Ying… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The breeding blanket with integrated first wall (FW) is the key nuclear component for power
extraction, tritium fuel sustainability, and radiation shielding in fusion reactors. The ITER …

Progress in the development and understanding of a high poloidal-beta tokamak operating scenario for an attractive fusion pilot plant

S Ding, AM Garofalo - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2022 - Springer
The high poloidal-beta (β P) regime was first proposed as a high bootstrap current scenario
for a steady-state fusion pilot plant (FPP) in the 1990s (Kikuchi in Nucl Fusion 30: 265 …

Japan's efforts to develop the concept of JA DEMO during the past decade

K Tobita, R Hiwatari, Y Sakamoto… - Fusion Science and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper summarizes the evolution of Japanese DEMO design studies in a retrospective
manner by highlighting efforts to resolve critical design issues on DEMO. Japan is currently …

First experimental tests of a new small angle slot divertor on DIII-D

HY Guo, HQ Wang, JG Watkins, L Casali… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A new small angle slot (SAS) divertor concept has been developed to enhance neutral
cooling across the divertor target by coupling a closed slot structure with appropriate target …

Evaluation of CFETR as a fusion nuclear science facility using multiple system codes

VS Chan, AE Costley, BN Wan, AM Garofalo… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents the results of a multi-system codes benchmarking study of the recently
published China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) pre-conceptual design (Wan et …

Promising high-confinement regime for steady-state fusion

GS Xu, QQ Yang, N Yan, YF Wang, XQ Xu, HY Guo… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
A reproducible stationary high-confinement regime with small “edge-localized
modes”(ELMs) has been achieved recently in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting …

Small angle slot divertor concept for long pulse advanced tokamaks

HY Guo, CF Sang, PC Stangeby, LL Lao… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
SOLPS-EIRENE edge code analysis shows that a gas-tight slot divertor geometry with a
small-angle (glancing-incidence) target, named the small angle slot (SAS) divertor, can …

Core integrated simulations for the Divertor Tokamak Test facility scenarios towards consistent core-pedestal-SOL modelling

I Casiraghi, P Mantica, R Ambrosino… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Deuterium plasma discharges of the Divertor Tokamak Test facility (DTT) in different
operational scenarios have been predicted by a comprehensive first-principle based …

Development of compact tokamak fusion reactor use cases to inform future transport studies

C Holland, EM Bass, DM Orlov… - Journal of Plasma …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The OMFIT STEP (Meneghini et al., Nucl. Fusion, vol. 10, 2020, p. 1088) workflow has been
used to develop inductive and steady-state H-mode core plasma scenario use cases for a …

Progress in extending high poloidal beta scenarios on DIII-D towards a steady-state fusion reactor and impact of energetic particles

J Huang, AM Garofalo, JP Qian, XZ Gong… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
To prepare for steady-state operation of future fusion reactors (eg the International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor …