Technical and economic feasibility study of high-current HTS bus bars for fusion reactors

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Technical and economic feasibility study of high-current HTS bus bars for fusion reactors

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Introduction and Overview: Chapter 1 of the Special Issue: on the Path to Tokamak Burning Plasma Operation

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

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

Inverse Geometric Locomotion

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

Position-Sensitive Domain-by-Domain Switchable Ferroelectric Memristor

The magnet feeders for the European DEMO fusion reactor: Conceptual design and recent advances

Global fluid simulations of plasma turbulence in stellarators

Divertor turbulence characterisation using Gas Puff Imaging in the TCV tokamak

Experimental study and interpretative modelling of the Power Exhaust in Configurations with Multiple X-Points in TCV

Models implemented in the methodological approach to design the initial STEP first wall contour

Physics-Enhanced Graph Neural Networks for Soft Sensing in Industrial Internet of Things

First-principle based predictions of the effects of negative triangularity on DTT scenarios

Overview on the Applicability of the ITER/NPP-Like Technologies to the DEMO Plant Electrical System and Promising Alternatives

Nonlinear simulation of plasma turbulence using a gyrokinetic moment-based approach

Scenario optimization for the tokamak ramp-down phase in RAPTOR: A. Analysis and model validation on ASDEX Upgrade

Essay: Overcoming the Obstacles to a Magnetic Fusion Power Plant

DEMO toroidal field coil fast discharge unit integration studies

Full-discharge simulation and optimization with the RAPTOR code, from present tokamaks to ITER and DEMO

Validation of D-T fusion power prediction capability against 2021 JET D-T experiments