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Instrumentation for the upgrade to the JET core charge-exchange spectrometers

Olivier Sauter, Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Yves Martin, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Nicola Vianello, Robin Humphry-Baker, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Nespoli, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Cristian Sommariva, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Mikhail Maslov, Marco Wischmeier, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Liang Yao, Daniel Scott Alessi, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Partha Dutta, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Julio Rodriguez, Vlad Trifa, Li Shuai, Rebecca Hill

Charge-exchange spectroscopy on JET has become particularly challenging with the introduction of the ITER-like wall. The line intensities are weaker and contaminated by many nuisance lines. We have therefore upgraded the instrumentation to improve throughp ...

2018

High Z neoclassical transport: Application and limitation of analytical formulae for modelling JET experimental parameters

Heavy impurities, such as tungsten (W), can exhibit strongly poloidally asymmetric density profiles in rotating or radio frequency heated plasmas. In the metallic environment of JET, the poloidal asymmetry of tungsten enhances its neoclassical transport up ...

2018

Speciation and reactivity of uranium products formed during in situ bioremediation in a shallow alluvial aquifer

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Daniel Scott Alessi, Elena Suvorova Buffat

In this study, we report the results of in situ U(VI) bioreduction experiments at the Integrated Field Research Challenge site in Rifle, Colorado, USA. Columns filled with sediments were deployed into a groundwater well at the site and, after a period of c ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

14 MeV calibration of JET neutron detectors-phase 1: calibration and characterization of the neutron source

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

In view of the planned DT operations at JET, a calibration of the JET neutron monitors at 14 MeV neutron energy is needed using a 14 MeV neutron generator deployed inside the vacuum vessel by the JET remote handling system. The target accuracy of this cali ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

The upgraded JET gamma-ray cameras based on high resolution/high count rate compact spectrometers

The JET gamma-ray cameras have been recently upgraded within the gamma-ray camera upgrade project in support of development of JET high performance deuterium plasma scenarios and in preparation of deuterium-tritium experiments. New, dedicated detectors bas ...

2018

Molecular ND Band Spectroscopy in the Divertor Region of Nitrogen Seeded JET Discharges

In this contribution we present OES measurements in the JET tokamak of the deuterated NH (ND) radical and the correlation between results of those experiments and measurement of ammonia production. The observation region covers most of the divertor and its ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2018

Neutron spectroscopy measurements of 14 MeV neutrons at unprecedented energy resolution and implications for deuterium-tritium fusion plasma diagnostics

Olivier Sauter, Jonathan Graves, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Patrick Blanchard, Richard Pitts, Yves Martin, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Sun Hee Kim, Alessandro Pau, Davide Galassi, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Liang Yao, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Mikhail Maslov, Marco Wischmeier, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Daniel Scott Alessi, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Vlad Trifa, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, David Pfefferlé, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Alexis Gérald Page, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz, Nicola Vianello, Cristian Sommariva, Tao Xu, Thomas Willem Jan de Geus, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia, Mario Joe Lehmann, Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut, Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Wei Zhang, Lenke Horváth, Matthew Brown, Hugo Antoine Georges Arnichand, Wei Tang, Luis David Figueiredo Mascarenhas Moreira Pedrosa, Philippe Janson, Lyne Moser, Stéphanie Prior, Stefano Mattei, Daniel Molina Romero, Riccardo Vannucci, Candice Megan T Young, Petre Alexandru Arion, Justin Robert Young, Gil Corbaz, Hugo Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Philippe Jean Buchs, Alejandro Santa Cruz Paz

An accurate calibration of the JET neutron diagnostics with a 14 MeV neutron generator was performed in the first half of 2017 in order to provide a reliable measurement of the fusion power during the next JET deuterium-tritium (DT) campaign. In order to m ...

IOP Publishing2018

Neutron emission spectroscopy of D plasmas at JET with a compact liquid scintillating neutron spectrometer

Neutron emission spectroscopy is a diagnostic technique that allows for energy measurements of neutrons born in nuclear reactions. The JET tokamak fusion experiment (Culham, UK) has a special role in this respect as advanced spectrometers for 2.5 MeV and 1 ...

2018

Bayesian Integrated Data Analysis of Fast-Ion Measurements by Velocity-Space Tomography

Bayesian integrated data analysis combines measurements from different diagnostics to jointly measure plasma parameters of interest such as temperatures, densities, and drift velocities. Integrated data analysis of fast-ion measurements has long been hampe ...

2018

Full-Pulse Tomographic Reconstruction with Deep Neural Networks

Plasma tomography consists of reconstructing a two-dimensional radiation profile of a poloidal cross section of a fusion device based on line-integrated measurements along several lines of sight. The reconstruction process is computationally intensive, and ...

2018

High fusion performance at high T-i/T-e in JET-ILW baseline plasmas with high NBI heating power and low gas puffing

This paper presents the transport analysis of high density baseline discharges in the 2016 experimental campaign of the Joint European Torus with the ITER-Like Wall (JET-ILW), where a significant increase in the deuterium-deuterium (D-D) fusion neutron rat ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Integrated modelling of H-mode pedestal and confinement in JET-ILW

A pedestal prediction model Europed is built on the existing EPED1 model by coupling it with core transport simulation using a Bohm-gyroBohm transport model to self-consistently predict JET-ILW power scan for hybrid plasmas that display weaker power degrad ...

2018

Application of the Denovo Discrete Ordinates Radiation Transport Code to Large-Scale Fusion Neutronics

Fusion energy systems pose unique challenges to the modeling and simulation community. These challenges must be met to ensure the success of the ITER experimental fusion reactor. ITER's complex systems require detailed modeling that goes beyond the scale o ...

2018

Shutdown dose rate measurements after the 2016 Deuterium-Deuterium campaign at JET

The EUROfusion Work Package JET3 programme, established to enable the technological exploitation of the JET experiments over the next years, includes, within the NEXP subproject, a novel Shutdown Dose Rate (SDR) experiment. Considering its ITER-relevance, ...

2018

Dust generation in tokamaks: Overview of beryllium and tungsten dust characterisation in JET with the ITER-like wall

Operation of the JET tokamak with beryllium and tungsten ITER-like wall provides unique opportunity for detailed studies on dust generation: quantity, morphology, location, etc. The programme carried out in response to ITER needs for safety assessment comp ...

2018

Activation material selection for multiple foil activation detectors in JET TT campaign

In the preparation for the Deuterium-Tritium campaign, JET will operate with a tritium plasma. The T + T reaction consists of two notable channels: (1) T + T -> He-4 + 2n, (2) T + T -> He-5 + n -> He-4 + 2n. The reaction channel (1) is the reaction with th ...

2018

Synthetic spectra of BeH, BeD and BeT for emission modeling in JET plasmas

A theoretical model for isotopologues of beryllium monohydride, BeH, BeD and BeT, A (2)Pi to X (2)Sigma(+) visible and X (2)Sigma(+) to X (2)Sigma(+) infrared rovibronic spectra is presented. The MARVEL procedure is used to compute empirical rovibronic ene ...

IOP Publishing2018

Material migration and fuel retention studies during the JET carbon divertor campaigns

The first divertor was installed in the JET machine between 1992 and 1994 and was operated with carbon tiles and then beryllium tiles in 1994-5. Post-mortem studies after these first experiments demonstrated that most of the impurities deposited in the div ...

2019

Heat flux analysis of Type-I ELM impact on a sloped, protruding surface in the JET bulk tungsten divertor

Tungsten (W) melting due to transient power loads, for example those delivered by edge localised modes (ELMs), is a major concern for next step fusion devices. A series of experiments has been performed on JET to investigate the dynamics of Type-I ELM-indu ...

Elsevier2018

Activation of ITER materials in JET: nuclear characterisation experiments for the long-term irradiation station

This paper details progress in experimental characterisation work at JET for the long-term irradiation station, conducted as part of a project to perform activation experiments using ITER materials. The aim is to take advantage of the significant 14 MeV ne ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018