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Integrated operation scenarios: Chapter 6 of the special issue: on the path to tokamak burning plasma operation

Here we report the progress of the development and optimization of operational scenarios for ITER and beyond, focusing upon baseline, hybrid, and steady-state scenarios since 2007. This includes advancements made by the integrated operation scenarios (IOS) ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Transport and confinement physics Chapter 2 of the special issue: on the path to tokamak burning plasma operation

Basil Duval, Yann Camenen, Mikhail Maslov

Progress in physics understanding and theoretical model development of plasma transport and confinement (TC) in the ITPA TC Topical Group since the publication of the ITER Physics Basis (IPB) document (Doyle et al 2007 Nucl. Fusion 47 S18) was summarized f ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Performance of the First 80-kA HTS CICC for High-Field Application in Future Fusion Reactors

Kamil Sedlák, Hugues Marie Alain Bajas, Mattia Ortino, Jack Richard Greenwood

A promising way to realize controlled nuclear fusion involves the use of magnetic fields to control and confine the hot plasma configuration. This approach requires superconductor magnets operating above 15 T for the next generation of fusion devices. Due ...

Elsevier BV2025

Dynamic steady-state coil current allocation for plasma shape control: A study on the TCV tokamak

Stefano Coda, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Adriano Mele

This work addresses the input current allocation problem for the magnetic control system of the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV). Given the available actuators (i.e. poloidal field coils) on the TCV device, this work aims to optimize the input curren ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Edge plasma turbulence simulations in detached regimes with the SOLEDGE3X code

Holger Reimerdes, Davide Mancini

Experimental results from several tokamaks suggest a strong impact of divertor density regimes on turbulent transport in the edge plasma. Reciprocally, the change in cross- field transport and Scrape-Off-Layer (SOL) width affects the access to density regi ...

Elsevier2024

MHD stability analysis against pressure and current-driven modes in the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak

Mario Ludovico Podesta

Linear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations for the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak (SMART) have been carried out for the first time, for both positive (PT) and negative triangularity (NT) shaped plasmas using the MARS-F code. The MHD stability of projected SM ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Data-driven models in fusion exhaust: AI methods and perspectives

Yoeri Renier Johannes Poels

A review is given on the highlights of a scatter-shot approach of developing machine-learning methods and artificial neural networks based fast predictors for the application to fusion exhaust. The aim is to enable and facilitate optimized and improved mod ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Integrated modelling of neon impact on JET H-mode core plasmas

Yann Camenen, Michele Marin

Nuclear fusion reactor plasmas will need to exhaust a significant proportion of energy flux through radiative processes, to enable acceptable divertor loads. This can be obtained by line radiation from impurities, injected from the plasma edge. There are h ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Model-based impurity emission front control using deuterium fueling and nitrogen seeding in TCV

Basil Duval, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Cristian Galperti, Artur Perek

This paper presents the first result using nitrogen-seeded exhaust feedback control of the NII impurity emission front in TCV. The NII emission front position is consistently located below its commonly used CIII counterpart, indicating the NII emission fro ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Remote wide angle view broad wavelength viewing system compatible with D-T operations in JET

Gilles Arnoux, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia

Imaging diagnostics in Joint European Torus have become essential in the study of plasma wall interactions and the protection of the plasma facing components. During deuterium operations, the location of these diagnostics was at close proximity to the vess ...

2023

Occam's razor on the mechanism of resistive-wall-mode-induced beta limits in diverted tokamaks

Jonathan Graves, Daniele Brunetti

External kink modes, believed to be the drive of the 0-limiting resistive wall mode, are strongly stabilized by the presence of a separatrix. We thus propose a novel mechanism explaining the appearance of long-wavelength global instabilities in free bounda ...

2023

Experimental confirmation of efficient island divertor operation and successful neoclassical transport optimization in Wendelstein 7-X

Gregory Vogel, Eduardo Sanchez, Frank Rüdiger Wagner, Alberto Bottino, Jonathan Graves, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Emiliano Fable, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Attila Bencze, Jieping Zhu, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Antoine Baillod, Nicola Vianello, Mike Machielsen

We present recent highlights from the most recent operation phases of Wendelstein 7-X, the most advanced stellarator in the world. Stable detachment with good particle exhaust, low impurity content, and energy confinement times exceeding 100 ms, have been ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Evidence for Alfven eigenmodes driven by alpha particles in D-He-3 fusion experiments on JET

Henri Weisen

Alfven eigenmodes (AEs) driven by energetic alpha particles can lead to enhanced fast ion transport and losses, thereby degrading the plasma performance in ITER and future magnetic confinement fusion reactors. Unexpectedly, AEs with negative toroidal mode ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Parallel convection and E × B drifts in the TCV snowflake divertor and their effects on target heat-fluxes

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Roberto Maurizio, Mirko Wensing, Davide Galassi

Parallel convection and E × B drifts act together to redistribute heat between the strike-points mechanisms is enhanced near the secondary X-point and is shown to dominate over heat in the low field side snowflake minus (LFS SF−). The cumulative heat conve ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Plasma confinement mode classification using a sequence-to-sequence neural network with attention

Alessandro Pau, Gino Marceca

In a typical fusion experiment, the plasma can have several possible confinement modes. At the tokamak a configuration variable, aside from the low (L) and high (H) confinement modes, an additional mode, dithering (D), is frequently observed. Developing me ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Experimental verification of X-point potential well formation in unfavorable magnetic field direction

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Mirko Wensing, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea

Recent TCV experiments confirm the predicted formation of an electric potential well, below the magnetic X-point, in configurations with unfavorable

B_t

field direction (ion

\nabla B

drift away from the divertor), that substantially reshapes the typica ...

Elsevier2020

Mixed hydrogen-deuterium plasmas on JET ILW

Henri Weisen, Mikhail Maslov

A study of mixed hydrogen-deuterium H-mode plasmas has been carried out in JET-ILW to strengthen the physics basis for extrapolations to JET D-T operation and to support the development of strategies for isotope ratio control in future experiments. Variati ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

Use of virtual actuators in ASDEX Upgrade control

Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici

Actuator management is an essential part of a modern tokamak plasma control system. It has to deal with a large number of control task simultaneously, needs to be able to operate close to stability limits and to avoid disruptions. In the ASDEX Upgrade toka ...

2020

DEMO physics challenges beyond ITER

Olivier Sauter, Emiliano Fable

For electricity producing tokamak fusion reactors like EU-DEMO, it is prudent to choose a plasma scenario close to the ITER baseline, where the largest amount of experimental evidence is available. Nevertheless, there are some aspects in which ITER and EU- ...

2020

Investigation of the role of electron temperature gradient modes in electron heat transport in TCV plasmas

Stephan Brunner, Olivier Sauter, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Claudio Marini, Alberto Mariani

Electron-scale micro-turbulence driven by the electron temperature gradient (ETG) instability has recently been shown to impact the electron heat transport in tokamaks. Given the relevance of these mechanisms for ITER scenarios, a new study has been carrie ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019