Concept

Lockheed Martin Compact Fusion Reactor

Related publications (215)

H- ion source for CERN's Linac4 accelerator

Linac4 is the new negative hydrogen ion (H-) linear accelerator of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Its ion source operates on the principle of Radio-Frequency Inductively Coupled Plasma (RF-ICP) and it is required to provide 50 mA of ...

EPFL2017

Implementation of Diverted Equilibria in the GBS simulation code

Paola Paruta, Fabio Riva, Christoph Wersal, Baptiste Jimmy Frei, Carrie Fiona Beadle

Simulating the most external plasma region of a tokamak, the scrape-off layer (SOL), is of crucial importance on the path towards a fusion reactor as heat load on the vessel wall, impurity generation, and overall plasma confinement all depend on the plasma ...

2017

Helicon wave-generated plasmas for negative ion beams for fusion

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello, Gennady Plyushchev, Claudio Marini

In the next generation of fusion reactors, such as DEMO, neutral beam injectors (NBIs) of high energy (0.8-1 MeV) deuterium atom swith high wall-plug efficiency (>50%) will be required to reach burning plasma conditions and to provide a significant amount ...

2017

Synthetic diagnostic for the beam emission spectroscopy diagnostic using a full optical integration

Loïc Hausammann

The beam emission spectroscopy (BES) diagnostic is used to measure fluctuations of electron density in the edge and core of fusion plasmas, and is a key in understanding turbulence in a plasma reactor. A synthetic BES diagnostic for the turbulence simulati ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Spectroscopic characterisation of H2 and D2 helicon plasmas generated by a resonant antenna for neutral beam applications in fusion

Basil Duval, Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Alexander Karpushov, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello, Gennady Plyushchev, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Claudio Marini

A new generation of neutral beam systems will be required in future fusion reactors, such as DEMO, able to deliver high power (up to 50 MW) with high (800 keV or higher) neutral energy. Only negative ion beams may be able to attain this performance, which ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Experimental study of plasma turbulence in the TCV tokamak

Zhouji Huang

This thesis presents an experimental investigation of electron density fluctuations in the TCV tokamak, primarily with the tangential phase contrast imaging (TPCI) diagnostic. The focus is to study the small-scale broadband turbulence in the plasma, which ...

EPFL2017

Scrape-Off Layer physics in limited plasmas in TCV

Federico Nespoli

Controlled nuclear fusion is the most promising candidate for being an inexhaustible, clean and intrinsically safe energy source. In the tokamak fusion reactor concept, a high temperature plasma is confined by magnetic fields. Turbulence diffuses the confi ...

EPFL2017

Fast-ion transport in low density L-mode plasmas at TCV using FIDA spectroscopy and the TRANSP code

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Duccio Testa, Alexander Karpushov, Yanis Andrebe, Claudio Marini

Experiments with the new neutral beam injection source of TCV have been performed with high fast-ion fractions (>20%) that exhibit a clear reduction of the loop voltage and a clear increase of the plasma pressure in on- and off-axis heating configurations. ...

2017

TCV divertor upgrade for alternative magnetic configurations

Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Jean-Marc Moret, Stefano Alberti, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, René Chavan, Umar Sheikh, Davide Uglietti, Matthieu Toussaint, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello

The Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) is planning a divertor upgrade for the TCV tokamak. The upgrade aims at extending the research of conventional and alternative divertor configurations to operational scenarios and divertor regimes of greater relevance for a fu ...

2017

DEMO port plug design and integration studies

Minh Quang Tran

The EUROfusion Consortium established in 2014 and composed by European Fusion Laboratories, and in particular the Power Plant Physics and Technology department aims to develop a conceptual design for the Fusion DEMOnstration Power Plant, DEMO. With respect ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Graph Chatbot

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.