Publications related to Cadarache

Error field detection and correction studies towards ITER operation

Olivier Sauter, Bernhard Sieglin, Leonardo Pigatto

In magnetic fusion devices, error field (EF) sources, spurious magnetic field perturbations, need to be identified and corrected for safe and stable (disruption-free) tokamak operation. Within Work Package Tokamak Exploitation RT04, a series of studies hav ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Long plasma duration operation analyses with an international multi-machine (tokamaks and stellarators) database

Stefano Coda, Jeffrey Huang

Combined high-fusion performance and long-pulse operation is one of the key integration challenges for fusion energy development in magnetic devices. Addressing these challenges requires an integrated vision of physics and engineering aspects with the purp ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Essay: Overcoming the Obstacles to a Magnetic Fusion Power Plant

Ambrogio Fasoli

Fusion occurs when light nuclei combine to form heavier nuclei. The energy released in this process powers the stars and can provide humankind with a safe, sustainable, and clean source of baseload electricity, a valuable tool in the fight against climate ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Study of Negative Ion Beamlets Produced in SPIDER by Beam Emission Spectroscopy

Riccardo Agnello

Among the beam diagnostics routinely employed in source for production of ion of deuterium (SPIDER), beam emission spectroscopy (BES) provides valuable information for beam characterization, thus driving source optimization methods. In particular, this tec ...

2022

Measurements of AC Loss Evolution in ITER TF Conductors

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák

AC loss in the Nb3Sn cable-in-conduit conductors (CICC) usually decreases after the conductor undergoes electromagnetic cycling. This can be attributed to the increase of inter-strand resistance due to the detachment of the strand-bonding during cyclic loa ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Numerics and computation in gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic turbulence with global particle-in-cell codes

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Emmanuel Lanti

Electromagnetic turbulence is addressed in tokamak and stellarator plasmas with the global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell codes ORB5 (E Lanti et al, Comp. Phys. Comm., 251, 107072 (2020)) and EUTERPE (V Kornilov et al, Phys. Plasmas, 11, 3196 (2004)). The la ...

2021

Updates on Magnet Design For EU-DEMO Reactor: Optimization Studies on TF and CS Systems

Kamil Sedlák

In the framework of EU design activities for dimensioning the future fusion DEMOnstration reactor (DEMO), extensive analyses were conducted in EUROfusion context, aiming at ultimately defining the design of the DEMO magnets system. In this objective CEA (C ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

A phase-contrast-imaging core fluctuation diagnostic and first-principles turbulence modeling for JT-60SA

Stefano Coda, Stephan Brunner, Matthieu Toussaint, Aylwin Iantchenko, Kenji Tanaka

A core fluctuation diagnostic based on the phase-contrast imaging (PCI) technique has been designed for the JT-60SA tokamak, with the assistance of a synthetic diagnostic coupled to a gyrokinetic code. Using a tangentially viewing geometry, this system wou ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

The JOREK non-linear extended MHD code and applications to large-scale instabilities and their control in magnetically confined fusion plasmas

Cristian Sommariva, Sun Hee Kim, Fang Liu

JOREK is a massively parallel fully implicit non-linear extended magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) code for realistic tokamak X-point plasmas. It has become a widely used versatile simulation code for studying large-scale plasma instabilities and their control an ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Current Center Line Integration in the Manufacturing Process of the ITER Toroidal Field Coils

Santiago Tarrago Velez

The first ITER & x0027;s European Toroidal Field Coil (TFC) is going to be assembled in 2019. The TFC is composed mainly by the superconducting Winding Pack (WP - manufactured in Europe), and the Coil Cases (TFCC - manufactured in Japan), which provide str ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Quench analysis of the DEMO CS1 coil

Kamil Sedlák

The European DEMOnstration Fusion Power Plant (EU-DEMO) is being designed as an intermediary stage between the ITER experimental reactor and future commercial fusion power plants. The EU-DEMO is based on the tokamak concept with a fully superconducting mag ...

2020

RAMI evaluation of the beam source for the DEMO neutral beam injectors

Minh Quang Tran

DEMO is a first-of-a-kind DEMOnstration fusion power plant [1,2] and is intended to follow the ITER experimental reactor. The main goal of DEMO will be to demonstrate the possibility to produce electric energy for the grid from the fusion reaction early in ...

2020

Runaway electron beam control

Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Joan Decker, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Diego Carnevale, Filippo Bagnato, Georgios Pappas, Gergely Papp

Post-disruption runaway electron (RE) beams in tokamaks with large current can cause deep melting of the vessel and are one of the major concerns for ITER operations. Consequently, a considerable effort is provided by the scientific community in order to t ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Development and optimisation of advanced auxiliary ion heating schemes for 3D fusion plasma devices

Hamish William Patten

The magnetic confinement fusion devices known as the tokamak and the stellarator are progressing towards becoming viable commercial nuclear fusion reactor designs. Both ap- proaches require improvements in the applied heating sources and in the particle an ...

EPFL2019

Transient fission matrix approach for assessing complex kinetics behavior in the ZEPHYR ZPR coupled core configurations

Axel Guy Marie Laureau

CEA is currently working on a new ZPR called ZEPHYR (Zero power Experimental PHYsics Reactor), to be built on the Cadarache Center in the next decade. Its awaited experimental capacities should go well beyond traditional needs, and in particular extended p ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Thermal-hydraulic analysis of the upgraded EU-DEMO CS1 coil

The European DEMOnstration Fusion Power Plant (EU-DEMO) is planned to be an intermediate step between ITER experimental reactor and a commercial fusion power plant, which should demonstrate feasibility of grid electricity production at a level of several h ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Design of DEMO PF Coils Based on Cable-in-Conduit Conductor

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Mithlesh Kumar

The poloidal field (PF) coils are designed based on the requirements defined by the EUROfusion 2015 DEMO baseline. The conductors are forced flow, NbTi cable-in-conduit. The design addresses the dimensioning of the winding pack, the electromagnetic field c ...

2019

Plasma exhaust and divertor studies in Japan and Europe broader approach, DEMO design activity

Holger Reimerdes

Power exhaust scenario and divertor design for a steady-state Japan (JA) DEMO and a pulse Europe (EU) DEMO1 have been investigated as one of the most important common issues in Broader Approach DEMO Design Activity. Radiative cooling is a common approach f ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2018

Evidence of Be-9 + p nuclear reactions during 2 omega(CH) and hydrogen minority ICRH in JET-ILW hydrogen and deuterium plasmas

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

Homogenization theory for the effective permittivity of a turbulent tokamak plasma in the scrape-off layer

Stefano Alberti, Ivo Furno, Oulfa Chellaï

There has been a growing interest, over the past few years, on understanding the effect on radio frequency waves due to turbulence in the scrape-off layer of tokamak plasmas. While the far scrape-off layer density width is of the order of centimetres in co ...

Cambridge University Press2018