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

A promising way to realize controlled nuclear fusion involves the use of magnetic fields to control and confine the hot plasma configuration. This approach requires superconductor magnets operating above 15 T for the next generation of fusion devices. Due ...

Elsevier BV2025

Numerical Analysis of Non-Insulated DEMO TF Coils

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Nikolay Bykovskiy

The design of small solenoids without/with-partial insulation (PI) among turns or layers has been proven to grant higher thermal stability than for standard insulated cases. This technology also implies higher safety standards, by e.g. reducing the coil vo ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2025

Characterization of the Full-Size Superconducting ASG Joint Designed for the DTT Toroidal Field Coils

Kamil Sedlák

The Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility is a challenging high-field and compact tokamak, currently under construction at the Frascati ENEA Research Center. Its purpose is to significantly contribute to the exploration, design and assessment of systems int ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2025

Result of Powering and Field Measurements on the GaToroid Demonstrator

Kamil Sedlák

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

DC and quench performance assessment from the EUROfusion HTS Quench Experiment campaign and projection to magnet operation

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Davide Uglietti, Kamil Sedlák, Nikolay Bykovskiy

Seven different high current conductors for fusion applications, made of High Temperature Superconducting stacked tapes, have been successfully tested in the Quench Experiment campaign supported by EUROfusion and carried out in SULTAN. The aim of this exte ...

2025

Conceptual Design of the EDIPO 2 Magnet

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Nikolay Bykovskiy

The SULTAN test facility has been pivotal in qualifying forced-flow conductors in the last three decades. However, the rising demand for conductors for high-field magnets calls for a test facility able to provide a background magnetic field beyond the 11 T ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2025

Test results of the DTT poloidal field conductor samples in SULTAN: DC and AC characterization

Kamil Sedlák

The poloidal field (PF) magnet system of the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility consists of 6 superconducting coils with full top-down symmetry, realized in Nb3Sn (PF1 and PF6) and NbTi (PF2, PF3, PF4 and PF5). To validate the NbTi PF coil design, short ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Nitronic 50 Steel as a Structural Material for EU-DEMO's Toroidal Field Coils

Kamil Sedlák

We report the results of an exploratory design study for Nitronic 50 (N50) Toroidal Field (TF) coils for the EU-DEMO fusion power plant. N50 is a super-austenitic steel that has a yield stress (𝝈 𝒚) of up to 1500 MPa at 4 K, 50% higher than the conventiona ...

2025

Bending Tolerance of React&Wind Nb3Sn Conductors for Fusion Magnets

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Chiara Frittitta, Federica Demattè

The react-and-wind technique for manufacturing of large Nb3Sn fusion magnets (RW) is very attractive because of the superior performance of the Nb3Sn with lower thermal strain compared to the wind-and-react technique. The procedure for magnet winding is al ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

Quench Detection and Temperature Measurement With Fiber Optic Sensors

Davide Uglietti, Kamil Sedlák, Christoph Müller

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

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

Kamil Sedlák

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

Modelling and analysis of quench in the 15-kA HTS conductor

Kamil Sedlák, Ortensia Dicuonzo

High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) are very promising materials for possible application in future fusion magnets, with significant R&D progress on HTS conductors in recent years. However, since geometric and thermo-physical characteristics of HTS and ...

2024

Development of a high current density, high temperature superconducting cable for pulsed magnets

Manuel Holenstein, Markus Jenni, Kamil Sedlák

A low-AC loss Rare-earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) cable, based on the VIPER cable technology has been developed by commonwealth fusion systems for use in high-field, compact tokamaks. The new cable is composed of partitioned and transposed copper ‘petal ...

2024

Divertor Tokamak Test facility project: status of design and implementation

Duccio Testa, Kamil Sedlák

An overview is presented of the progress since 2021 in the construction and scientific programme preparation of the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility. Licensing for building construction has been granted at the end of 2021. Licensing for Cat. A radiolog ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Performance Comparison of Cables With Partial Transposition

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Chiara Frittitta, Federica Demattè

The need of full transposition of the current carrying elements (strands) in large cables is frequently retained as top design criterion for conductors operating in pulsed mode. However, when the transposition error, i.e., the inductance difference among t ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

Experimental study of stability, quench propagation and detection methods on 15 kA sub-scale HTS fusion conductors in SULTAN

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Nikolay Bykovskiy, Ortensia Dicuonzo

High-temperature superconductors (HTSs) enable exclusive operating conditions for fusion magnets, boosting their performance up to 20 T generated magnetic fields in the temperature range from 4 K to 20 K. One of the main technological issues of HTS conduct ...

2023

Quench experiments on sub-size HTS Cable-In-Conduit Conductors for fusion applications: Data analysis and model validation

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Kamil Sedlák, Ortensia Dicuonzo

The recent experimental campaign, carried out in the upgraded SULTAN facility and supported by EUROfusion, investigated quench propagation in high field, sub-size HTS Cable-In-Conduit Conductors. The available experimental data consist of voltage, jacket a ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Manufacture and performance test result of a 95 kA-class Nb-Ti cable-in-conduit conductor for the low field winding-package of CFETR-TF coil

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák

The engineering design of the CFETR TF prototype coil and conductors has been completed. The wind-package (WP) of the coil is graded into three regions based on the magnetic field distribution for saving cost. High-Jc Nb3Sn strand, ITER-like Nb3Sn strand a ...

Elsevier2023

Preliminary design of the cold mass supports for the EU DEMO feeders

Kamil Sedlák, Roberto Guarino

The Cold Mass Support (CMS) is a basic structural component of the feeder system of the EU DEMO tokamak. The function of this structural element is not only to provide support to the containment duct - wiring the cryogenic lines, electrical bus bars and in ...

2023

Progress in the design and manufacturing of the EDIPO 2 cryostat

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Roberto Guarino, Evgeny Solodko

A major upgrade of the European DIPOle (EDIPO) test facility, which will allow the testing of superconducting samples both for fusion and for high-energy physics applications, is taking place at the Swiss Plasma Center. With a target background field of 15 ...

2023