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Publications associées (29)

Overview of the JET results in support to ITER

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Cristian Sommariva, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Federico Nespoli, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler

The 2014-2016 JET results are reviewed in the light of their significance for optimising the ITER research plan for the active and non-active operation. More than 60 h of plasma operation with ITER first wall materials successfully took place since its ins ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Plasma cleaning of ITER first mirrors

Stefano Alberti, Ivo Furno

Nuclear fusion is an extremely attractive option for future generations to compete with the strong increase in energy consumption. Proper control of the fusion plasma is mandatory to reach the ambitious objectives set while preserving the machine's integri ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Overview of ASDEX Upgrade results

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Sommariva, Laurie Porte, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Haomin Sun, Yann Camenen, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Alberto Bottino, Emiliano Fable, Andrea Scarabosio, Doohyun Kim, Dávid Wágner, Thomas Binderup Jensen

The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme is directed towards physics input to critical elements of the ITER design and the preparation of ITER operation, as well as addressing physics issues for a future DEMO design. Since 2015, AUG is equipped with a new pair of ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Overview of Performance Test of Korean CICCs for ITER TF Magnet

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov

The Korean Domestic Agency (KODA) for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project has taken the responsibility of the procurement of cable-in-conduit conductors for the ITER toroidal field magnet. While procuring 27 conductor unit l ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Lower hybrid current drive experiments with different launched wave frequencies in the EAST tokamak

Joan Decker, Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Fang Liu

EAST has been equipped with two high power lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) systems with operating frequencies of 2.45 GHz and 4.6 GHz. Comparative LHCD experiments with the two different frequencies were performed in the same conditions of plasma for the ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Statistics of Test Results for the ITER Nb3Sn and NbTi Conductors in the SULTAN Facility

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Rainer Wesche, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov

The series production of Nb3Sn and NbTi cable-inconduit conductors (CICC) for the winding of various coils in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) magnet system is being completed in 2015. The tests of the ITER conductor samples are ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

WEST Physics Basis

Joan Decker, Javier García Hernández

With WEST (Tungsten Environment in Steady State Tokamak) (Bucalossi et al 2014 Fusion Eng. Des. 89 907-12), the Tore Supra facility and team expertise (Dumont et al 2014 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 56 075020) is used to pave the way towards ITER divertor ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2015

Interaction between the Lower Hybrid wave and density fluctuations in the scrape-off layer

Joan Decker

In the present paper, the perturbation of the launched power spectrum of the Lower Hybrid wave at the separatrix by electron density fluctuations in the scrape-off layer is investigated. Considering a slab geometry with magnetic field lines parallel to the ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Analysis of Internal-Tin Nb3Sn Conductors for ITER Central Solenoid

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) is procuring 100% of the ITER Central Solenoid (CS) conductors. The CS conductor is required to maintain the performance under 60000 pulsed electromagnetic cycles. JAEA tested two internal-tin Nb3Sn conductors for the CS a ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015