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Tritium removal from JET-ILW after T and D-T experimental campaigns

After the second Deuterium-Tritium Campaign (DTE2) in the JET tokamak with the ITER-Like Wall (ILW) and full tritium campaigns that preceded and followed after the DTE2, a sequence of fuel recovery methods was applied to promote tritium removal from wall c ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Wigner Gaussian dynamics: Simulating the anharmonic and quantum ionic motion

Lorenzo Monacelli

The atomic motion controls important properties of materials, such as thermal transport, phase transitions, and vibrational spectra. However, simulating the ionic dynamics is exceptionally challenging when quantum fluctuations are relevant (e.g., at low te ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Locked mode detection during error field identification studies

Olivier Sauter

At the beginning of a machine operation, an assessment of the intrinsic error fields, spurious magnetic field perturbations which can affect plasma dynamics, is often carried out by executing the compass scan method [Scoville J.T. et al. Nucl. Fusion 43 25 ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

A subcellular biochemical model for T6SS dynamics reveals winning competitive strategies

Yuexia Luna Lin

The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a broadly distributed interbacterial weapon that can be used to eliminate competing bacterial populations. Although unarmed target populations are typically used to study T6SS function in vitro, bacteria most likely e ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

The JET hybrid scenario in Deuterium, Tritium and Deuterium-Tritium

Matteo Fontana, Haomin Sun, Javier García Hernández, Mikhail Maslov

The JET hybrid scenario has been developed from low plasma current carbon wall discharges to the record-breaking Deuterium-Tritium plasmas obtained in 2021 with the ITER-like Be/W wall. The development started in pure Deuterium with refinement of the plasm ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

JET D-T scenario with optimized non-thermal fusion

Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Javier García Hernández, Mikhail Maslov

In JET deuterium-tritium (D-T) plasmas, the fusion power is produced through thermonuclear reactions and reactions between thermal ions and fast particles generated by neutral beam injection (NBI) heating or accelerated by electromagnetic wave heating in t ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

The role of isotope mass and transport for H-mode access in tritium containing plasmas at JET with ITER-like wall

Henri Weisen, Haomin Sun, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov

The required heating power, P-LH, to access the high confinement regime (H-mode) in tritium containing plasmas is investigated in JET with ITER-like wall at a toroidal magnetic field of B-t = 1.8 T and a plasma current of I-p = 1.7 MA. PLH, also referred t ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Effect of Co-Substitution on Hydrogen Absorption and Desorption Reactions of YMgNi4-Based Alloys

Andreas Züttel, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Wen Luo, Heena Yang

YMgNi4-based alloys exhibit reversible hydrogen absorption and desorption reactions at near room temperature. Here, we report that Co-substituted YMgNi4-based alloys exhibited higher hydrogen contents and lower hydrogen absorption and desorption reaction p ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Efficient Semiclassical Evaluation of Electronic Coherences in Polyatomic Molecules

Jiri Vanicek, Nikolay Golubev

Exposing a molecule to an intense light pulse can create a nonstationary quantum state, thus launching correlated dynamics of electrons and nuclei. Although much had been achieved in the understanding of fundamental physics behind the electron-nuclear inte ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2022

Dosimetry modeling and experimental validation for the PETALE program in the CROCUS reactor

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Pavel Frajtag, Axel Guy Marie Laureau

The PETALE experimental program in the CROCUS reactor intends to provide integral measurements on reactivity worth and dosimetry measurement to constrain nuclear data relative to stainless steel heavy reflectors. The experimental setup consists in eight su ...

2021

Convergence of random walks with Markovian cookie stacks to Brownian motion perturbed at extrema

Thomas Mountford

We consider one-dimensional excited random walks (ERWs) with i.i.d. Markovian cookie stacks in the non-boundary recurrent regime. We prove that under diffusive scaling such an ERW converges in the standard Skorokhod topology to a multiple of Brownian motio ...

2022

The fragmentation mechanism of gold nanoparticles in water under femtosecond laser irradiation

Marcel Drabbels, Gabriele Bongiovanni, Ulrich Lorenz, Jonathan Mark Voss, Pavel Olshin, Chengcheng Yan

Plasmonic nanoparticles in aqueous solution have long been known to fragment under irradiation with intense ultrafast laser pulses, creating progeny particles with diameters of a few nanometers. However, the mechanism of this process is still intensely deb ...

2021

Real-time feedback control of the impurity emission front in tokamak divertor plasmas

Basil Duval, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Galperti, Artur Perek

In magnetic confinement thermonuclear fusion the exhaust of heat and particles from the core remains a major challenge. Heat and particles leaving the core are transported via open magnetic field lines to a region of the reactor wall, called the divertor. ...

Nature Research2021

Power exhaust by core radiation at COMPASS tokamak

Olivier Claude Martin Février, Davide Mancini

Substantial power dissipation in the edge plasma is required for the safe operation of ITER and next-step fusion reactors, otherwise unmitigated heat fluxes at the divertor plasma-facing components (PFCs) would easily exceed their material limits. Traditio ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

A risk-based multi-level stress test methodology: application to six critical non-nuclear infrastructures in Europe

Anton Schleiss, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Daniela Rodrigues

Recent natural disasters that seriously affected critical infrastructure (CI) with significant socio-economic losses and impact revealed the need for the development of reliable methodologies for vulnerability and risk assessment. In this paper, a risk-bas ...

2020

Data assimilation of post irradiation examination experiments to adjust fission yields

Andreas Pautz, Daniel Jerôme Siefman, Mathieu Hursin

Nuclear data, especially fission yields, create uncertainties in the predicted concentrations of fission products in spent fuel. Herein, we present a new framework that extends data assimilation methods to burnup simulations by using data from post-irradia ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

Crosstalk between Drp1 phosphorylation sites during mitochondrial dynamics and metabolic adaptation

Miriam Valera Alberni

Mitochondria are highly dynamics organelles that undergo coordinated cycles of fission and fusion, referred to as mitochondrial dynamics. Mitochondrial dynamics regulate mitochondrial bioenergetics and allow cells to adapt to changing cellular stresses and ...

EPFL2020

In Situ Observation of Coulomb Fission of Individual Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Marcel Drabbels, Ulrich Lorenz, Pavel Olshin, Jonathan Mark Voss

Reshaping plasmonic nanoparticles with laser pulses has been extensively researched as a tool for tuning their properties. However, in the absence of direct observations of the processes involved, important mechanistic details have remained elusive. Here, ...

2019

Control of the hydrogen:deuterium isotope mixture using pellets in JET

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yiming Li, Basil Duval, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Henri Weisen, Alessandro Pau, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Cristian Sommariva, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Samuel Lanthaler, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Richard Pitts, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Yao Zhou, Davide Galassi, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Emiliano Fable, Francesca Maria Poli, Daniele Brunetti, Anna Teplukhina, Alberto Mariani, Kenji Tanaka, Bernhard Sieglin, Otto Asunta, Gergely Papp, Leonardo Pigatto

Deuterium pellets are injected into an initially pure hydrogen H-mode plasma in order to control the hydrogen: deuterium (H:D) isotope mixture. The pellets are deposited in the outer 20% of the minor radius, similar to that expected in ITER, creating trans ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Analysis of deposited layers with deuterium and impurity elements on samples from the divertor of JET with ITER-like wall

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Cristian Sommariva, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Alessandro Pau, Philippe Janson, Thomas Willem Jan de Geus, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Andrea Salmi, Javier García Hernández, Semin Kwak, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Hugo Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Riccardo Vannucci, Yao Zhou, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Davide Galassi, Sun Hee Kim, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Jan Horacek, Liang Yao, Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Federico Nespoli, David Pfefferlé, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Bernhard Sieglin, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Hamish William Patten, Otto Asunta, Samuel Lanthaler, Robin Humphry-Baker, Fernando Cortes Salazar, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Alexis Gérald Page, Daniel Scott Alessi, Luca Carraro, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz, Tao Xu, Mario Joe Lehmann, Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Matthew Brown, Michael Oliver Reinke, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa, Wei Tang, Stefano Mattei, Lenke Horváth, Magalie Diane Bassan, Luis David Figueiredo Mascarenhas Moreira Pedrosa, Petre Alexandru Arion, Candice Megan T Young, Vlad Trifa, Stéphanie Prior, Lyne Moser, Daniel Molina Romero, Philippe Jean Buchs, Justin Robert Young, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia, Partha Dutta

Inconel-600 blocks and stainless steel covers for quartz microbalance crystals from remote corners in the JET-ILW divertor were studied with time-of-flight elastic recoil detection analysis and nuclear reaction analysis to obtain information about the area ...

2019