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Isotope effects in linear and saturated ohmic confinement of TCV tokamak and gyrokinetic validation

Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Benoît Labit, Lorenzo Martinelli, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Oleg Krutkin, Artur Perek

We investigated isotope effects during the tokamak à configuration variable (TCV) ohmic discharge of a diverted positive triangular shape configuration of deuterium (D) and hydrogen (H) plasmas. The transition from the linear ohmic confinement (LOC) regime ...

2025

Experimental research on the TCV tokamak

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Yanis Andrebe, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Jérémy Genoud, Hugo De Oliveira, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Antoine Baillod, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Aylwin Iantchenko, Mengdi Kong, Francesco Carpanese, Federico Pesamosca, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Simon Van Mulders, Nicola Offeddu, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Maurizio Giacomin, Filippo Bagnato, Davide Galassi, Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole, Lorenzo Martinelli, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Overview of the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation programme in support of ITER and DEMO

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Aylwin Iantchenko, Mengdi Kong, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia, Simon Van Mulders, Nicola Offeddu, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Filippo Bagnato, Davide Galassi, Lorenzo Martinelli, Jean Arthur Cazabonne, Alessandro Pau, Matteo Vallar, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Gino Marceca, Davide Mancini, Cassandre Ekta Contré, Guang-Yu Sun, , , , , , , , , ,

A control oriented strategy of disruption prediction to avoid the configuration collapse of tokamak reactors

Patrick Blanchard, Ambrogio Fasoli, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Duccio Testa, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Umar Sheikh, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia, Eduardo José Lascas Neto, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Mike Machielsen, Alessandro Pau, Gino Marceca

The objective of thermonuclear fusion consists of producing electricity from the coalescence of light nuclei in high temperature plasmas. The most promising route to fusion envisages the confinement of such plasmas with magnetic fields, whose most studied ...

Nature Research2024

The role of isotope mass and transport for H-mode access in tritium containing plasmas at JET with ITER-like wall

Henri Weisen, Marco Wischmeier, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Nicola Vianello, Haomin Sun

The required heating power, P-LH, to access the high confinement regime (H-mode) in tritium containing plasmas is investigated in JET with ITER-like wall at a toroidal magnetic field of B-t = 1.8 T and a plasma current of I-p = 1.7 MA. PLH, also referred t ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Tritium removal from JET-ILW after T and D-T experimental campaigns

Henri Weisen, Mikhail Maslov

After the second Deuterium-Tritium Campaign (DTE2) in the JET tokamak with the ITER-Like Wall (ILW) and full tritium campaigns that preceded and followed after the DTE2, a sequence of fuel recovery methods was applied to promote tritium removal from wall c ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Evaluation of neutron dose rates at the TCV tokamak facility

Patrick Blanchard, Henri Weisen, Matteo Vallar

A detailed MCNP neutronics model of the building housing the TCV tokamak has been developed. Predicted dose rates have been compared to neutron dose measurements at 12 locations in the building obtained during neutral beam injection into TCV plasmas. This ...

2023

TCV Tokamak Neutron Shielding Upgrade for Dual NBI Operation

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Alexander Karpushov, Duccio Testa, Jérémie Dubray, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Matteo Vallar

The Tokamak a Configuration variable (TCV) is equipped with two neutral beam injection (NBI) systems delivering up to 1.2 MW each for pulse durations of up to 2 s. The first system (NBI1), designed for an injection energy in the range of 25 to 30 keV has b ...

2023

Regressive Tomography and Direct Regressive Reconstruction: A Research Note

Henri Weisen

Two related methods for inverting line-integrated measurements are presented in this research paper in the context of the recent deuterium-tritium experiments in the JET tokamak. Unlike traditional methods of tomography, these methods rely on making use of ...

2023

The power threshold of H-mode access in mixed hydrogen-tritium and pure tritium plasmas at JET with ITER-like wall

Henri Weisen

The heating power to access the high confinement mode (H-mode), P (LH), scales approximately inversely with the isotope mass of the main ion plasma species as found in (protonic) hydrogen, deuterium and tritium plasmas in many fusion facilities over the la ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Overview of the TCV tokamak experimental programme

Patrick Blanchard, Stephan Brunner, Stefano Alberti, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Oulfa Chellaï, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Matteo Fontana, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Dahye Choi, Aylwin Iantchenko, Mengdi Kong, Roberto Maurizio, Francesco Carpanese, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Updates for automatic analysis and post-processing of JET neutral particle analysers for TT and DT campaigns

Henri Weisen

The data processing from both JET Neutral Particle Analysers (NPAs), high energy and low energy detector systems, has been updated for needs of operating in different scenarios with several isotopes in tritium and deuterium plasmas in the 2021 campaigns. T ...

2022

Comparison of JET-C DD neutron rates independently predicted by the ASCOT and TRANSP Monte Carlo heating codes

Henri Weisen

Simulations of the DD neutron rates predicted by the ASCOT and TRANSP Monte Carlo heating codes for a diverse set of JET-C (JET with carbon plasma facing components) plasmas are compared. A previous study (Weisen et al 2017 Nucl. Fusion 57 076029) of this ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Alfven cascade eigenmodes above the TAE-frequency and localization of Alfven modes in D-He-3 plasmas on JET

Henri Weisen

Various types of Alfven eigenmodes (AEs) have been destabilized by fast ions over a broad frequency range from similar to 80 kHz to similar to 700 kHz in a series of JET experiments in mixed D-He-3 plasmas heated with the three-ion ICRF scenario (2020 Noce ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Ion temperature spectroscopic measurements in high rotation discharges by means of X-ray diagnostic at JET

Henri Weisen

Measurement of the X-ray spectra of the He-like Ni ions (Ni26+) and their dielectronic satellites (Ni25+, Ni24+, and Ni23+) plays a crucial role in determination of electronic and ion temperature of plasma in the JET device. Because n >= 3 satellites of Ni ...

2022

Overview of JET results for optimising ITER operation

Patrick Blanchard, Ambrogio Fasoli, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Matteo Fontana, Umar Sheikh, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia, Eduardo José Lascas Neto, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Mike Machielsen, Alessandro Pau, Gino Marceca

The JET 2019-2020 scientific and technological programme exploited the results of years of concerted scientific and engineering work, including the ITER-like wall (ILW: Be wall and W divertor) installed in 2010, improved diagnostic capabilities now fully a ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Excitation of Alfven eigenmodes by fusion-born alpha-particles in D-He-3 plasmas on JET

Henri Weisen, Javier García Hernández

Alfven eigenmode (AE) instabilities driven by alpha-particles have been observed in D-He-3 fusion experiments on the Joint European Torus (JET) with the ITER-like wall. For the efficient generation of fusion alpha-particles from D-He-3 fusion reaction, the ...

2022

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

L-H transition threshold studies in helium plasmas at JET

Henri Weisen

We present a study of the power threshold for L-H transitions (P-LH) in almost pure helium plasmas, obtained in recent experiments at JET with an ITER-like wall (Be wall and W divertor). The most notable new result is that the density at which P-LH is mini ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Semi-empirical extrapolation of JET baseline and hybrid scenario fusion performance to D-T operation

Henri Weisen

We present DT neutron rate extrapolations for the baseline and hybrid scenarios of the imminent JET DTE2 experimental campaign using the Monte Carlo heating code ASCOT, using empirically scaled plasmas parameters as inputs. The scalings used are based on t ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021