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X-point radiation: From discovery to potential application in a future reactor

Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Olivier Claude Martin Février

Power exhaust is a crucial issue for future fusion reactors. Divertor detachment and the required power dissipation fractions of about 95% are foreseen to be achieved by impurity seeding. In a tokamak, at high seeding levels the radiation often concentrate ...

Elsevier2025

Impurity-seeded detachment in conventional and optimized TCV divertor geometry

Guang-Yu Sun

Nuclear fusion provides a potentially unlimited and clean energy source which motivates the development of fusion power plants. The tokamak is one of the most promising concepts for a future reactor, confining the fusion plasmas in a torus using strong mag ...

EPFL2025

Implementation of an Iter-relevant Qp-based Current Limit Avoidance Algorithm in the Tcv Tokamak

Stefano Coda, Cristian Galperti, Adriano Mele

The problem of avoiding saturation of the coil currents is critical in large tokamaks with superconducting coils like ITER. Indeed, if the current limits are reached, a loss of control of the plasma may lead to a major disruption. Therefore, a current limi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Advancing Multi-Dimensional Simulation of Nuclear Fuel Behavior: from LOCA Analysis to Fast Reactor Applications

Edoardo Luciano Brunetto

Current research on nuclear fuel focuses on two primary objectives. The first is to optimize the fuel used in the current generation of nuclear reactors in terms of safety, efficiency, and economics. This has driven efforts to increase discharge burnup and ...

EPFL2025

Neutral pressure measurement in TCV tokamak using ASDEX-type pressure gauges

Holger Reimerdes, Hammam Elaian, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Mateusz Gospodarczyk, Guang-Yu Sun, Marc Noël, Elena Tonello

Probing the neutral gas distribution at the edge of magnetic confinement fusion devices is critical for plasma exhaust studies. In the TCV tokamak, a set of ASDEX-type hot ionization pressure gauges (APGs) has been installed for fast, in situ measurements ...

2025

Measurement of the photon polarisation in B+ -> K+ pi- pi+ gamma decays at LHCb

Marie Theres Christin Bachmayer

All physical processes can be described, at a fundamental level, through interactions of elementary particles. The Standard Model of particle physics (SM) describes three of the four known fundamental forces and all of the known elementary particles. The a ...

EPFL2025

Plasma state monitoring and disruption characterization using multimodal VAEs

Olivier Sauter, Alessandro Pau, Giulio Romanelli, Cristina Venturini, Yoeri Renier Johannes Poels

When a plasma disrupts in a tokamak, significant heat and electromagnetic loads are deposited onto the surrounding device components. These forces scale with plasma current and magnetic field strength, making disruptions one of the key challenges for futur ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Assessment of JEFF Nuclear Data Libraries for Reactor Physics and Spent Fuel Composition Applications

Mathieu Hursin

Informa UK Limited2025

Optimizing the ITER NBI ion source by dedicated RF driver test stand

Riccardo Agnello

The experimental fusion reactor ITER will feature two (or three) heating neutral beam injectors (NBI) capable of delivering 33(or 50) MW of power into the plasma. A NBI consists of a plasma source for production of negative ions (extracted negative ion cur ...

Institute of Physics2024

Comparison of detachment in Ohmic plasmas with positive and negative triangularity

Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Elena Tonello, Massimo Carpita, Artur Perek, Emanuel Paul Huett, Martim Zurita

In recent years, negative triangularity (NT) has emerged as a potential high-confinement L-mode reactor solution. In this work, detachment is investigated using core density ramps in lower single null Ohmic L-mode plasmas across a wide range of upper, lowe ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Validating reduced models for detachment onset and reattachment times on MAST-U

Holger Reimerdes

Two reduced models for predicting detachment onset and divertor reattachment times are validated on MAST Upgrade (MAST-U). These models are essential for future tokamak reactor design, providing rapid calculations based primarily on engineering parameters. ...

Elsevier2024

Investigation of Hydrogen Behaviour in Irradiated Zirconium-Based Fuel Claddings by Neutron Imaging and Complementary Techniques

Okan Yetik

Zirconium-based cladding tubes, mainly used as fuel cladding materials in light water reactors, serve as the primary barrier insulating the radioactive fission products from the environment. During operation, the cladding interacts with the coolant water, ...

EPFL2024

Isotope effects and Alfvén eigenmode stability in JET H, D, T, DT, and He plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli

While much about Alfvén eigenmode (AE) stability has been explored in previous and current tokamaks, open questions remain for future burning plasma experiments, especially regarding exact stability threshold conditions and related isotope effects; the lat ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Study of impurity C transport and plasma rotation in negative triangularity on the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Justin Richard Ball, Filippo Bagnato, Alessandro Pau, Dmytry Mykytchuk

Carbon impurity transport is studied in the TCV tokamak using a charge exchange recombination diagnostic. TCVs flexible shaping capabilities were exploited to extend previous impurity transport studies to negative triangularity (delta < 0). A practical way ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Gamma-ray Spectroscopy in Low-Power Nuclear Research Reactors

Andreas Pautz, Oskari Ville Pakari, Vincent Pierre Lamirand

Gamma-ray spectroscopy is an effective technique for radioactive material characterization, routine inventory verification, nuclear safeguards, health physics, and source search scenarios. Gamma-ray spectrometers typically cannot be operated in the immedia ...

MDPI2024

WEST full tungsten operation with an ITER grade divertor

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici

The mission of WEST (tungsten-W Environment in Steady-state Tokamak) is to explore long pulse operation in a full tungsten (W) environment for preparing next-step fusion devices (ITER and DEMO) with a focus on testing the ITER actively cooled W divertor in ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

DTT toroidal field conductor samples test in Sultan: DC and AC characterization

Kamil Sedlák, Hugues Marie Alain Bajas, Mattia Ortino

The superconducting magnet system of the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility, composed of 18 toroidal field (TF) coils, 6 poloidal field coils and a central solenoid, has been designed and many procurements have been launched. Some manufacturing aspects a ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Quench Detection and Temperature Measurement With Fiber Optic Sensors

Davide Uglietti, Kamil Sedlák

For the EU DEMO conductor testing, a temperature sensor based on Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) optical fiber is studied at the EPFL Swiss Plasma Center. The SULTAN test facility has been upgraded to use fiber optic sensor for temperature monitoring and quench ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

Global gyrokinetic study of density gradient driven instability in tokamaks: the ubiquitous mode

Laurent Villard

The ubiquitous mode is investigated in the linear regime for the first time using a global gyrokinetic model. These modes are driven by the density gradient in trapped electron population but with mode frequency in the ion diamagnetic drift direction, in c ...

2024

Overview of physics results from MAST upgrade towards core-pedestal-exhaust integration

Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Matteo Vallar, Samuele Mazzi

Recent results from MAST Upgrade are presented, emphasising understanding the capabilities of this new device and deepening understanding of key physics issues for the operation of ITER and the design of future fusion power plants. The impact of MHD instab ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024