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Conceptual design proposal for the EU-DEMO electron cyclotron ex-vessel waveguide system with enhanced remote maintainability

Jean-Philippe Hogge, René Chavan, Avelino Mas Sanchez, Anastasia Xydou

The EUropean DEMOnstration power plant (EU-DEMO) project, a EUROfusion initiative, seeks to advance fusion power technology by developing a reliable Electron Cyclotron (EC) heating and current drive system capable of delivering up to 130 MW of auxiliary he ...

2025

Effect of Ion Irradiation on the Surface Electrical Conductivity of Cucrzr at High Frequencies

Timothy Goodman, Jean-Philippe Hogge, René Chavan, Jérémy Genoud, Avelino Mas Sanchez, Anastasia Xydou

The ohmic losses in the Electron Cyclotron Heating system of the DEMO nuclear fusion reactor depend on the surface electrical conductivity of the material at the frequency of the mm-wave beams generated in the gyrotrons. To reduce the ohmic losses, many co ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2025

Design description and thermo-hydraulic assessment of the steering mirror for the EU DEMO Electron Cyclotron system

Jean-Philippe Hogge, René Chavan, Avelino Mas Sanchez, Anastasia Xydou

Six Electron Cyclotron (EC) launchers are currently envisaged to be installed at the Equatorial Ports (EP) of the EU DEMO Tokamak with the purpose of delivering up to 130 MW for plasma bulk heating (BH), thermal instability (TI) control and magnetohydrodyn ...

2025

Pre-conceptual design of the fixed mirrors for the DEMO Electron Cyclotron Heating antenna

Timothy Goodman, Jean-Philippe Hogge, René Chavan, Avelino Mas Sanchez, Anastasia Xydou, Humberto Torreblanca Quiroz

The M1 mirrors are part of the in -vessel quasi -optical Electron Cyclotron beam propagation system of the DEMO nuclear fusion reactor. These four mirrors are all non -movable and with a plane reflecting surface. Based on their functionality they are divid ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Pre-conceptual design of the steering mirror for the DEMO electron cyclotron heating system

Timothy Goodman, Jean-Philippe Hogge, René Chavan, Avelino Mas Sanchez, Anastasia Xydou

An Electron Cyclotron (EC) Heating and Current Drive (HCD) system will be installed in the EU DEMO Tokamak to provide plasma heating and stabilization by coupling up to 130 MW of mm-wave power into specific regions of the plasma. The mm -waves will be gene ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Conceptual design of a modular EC heating system for EU-DEMO

Timothy Goodman, Jean-Philippe Hogge, René Chavan, Anastasia Xydou

The European DEMO (EU-DEMO) reactor studies within EUROfusion aim to develop a fusion power plant concept. The large tokamak device needs an auxiliary heating power which, at the present stage, is provided by the Electron Cyclotron (EC) heating system with ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Design Progress of Structural Components of the EU DEMO EC Equatorial Launcher

René Chavan, Jean-Philippe Hogge

The EU DEMO Tokamak is foreseen to be equipped with an electron cyclotron (EC) system for plasma heating, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) control, and thermal instability suppression. Up to six launchers will be installed into equatorial ports with the aim to in ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Fluid-dynamic and thermo-mechanical analyses of the ITER electron cyclotron Miter bend mirror for the off-centered beam scenario

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Avelino Mas Sanchez, Anastasia Xydou, Humberto Torreblanca Quiroz

2023

Present design of the Steering Mirror Assembly (SMA) for ITER ECHUL

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Anastasia Xydou

In the ITER Tokamak, four Electron Cyclotron Heating Upper Launchers (ECHUL) are needed to control plasma instabilities at the rational surfaces, most importantly the q = 3/2 and q = 2/1 neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs). Each ECHUL is equipped with a set ...

2023

High power mm-wave loss measurements of ITER ex-vessel waveguide components at the FALCON test facility at the Swiss Plasma Center

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Avelino Mas Sanchez, Anastasia Xydou, Humberto Torreblanca Quiroz

Many future fusion devices will rely heavily, if not solely, on electron cyclotron (EC) heating subsystems to provide bulk heating, instability control (neoclassical tearing mode (NTM) stabilization), and thermal instability control. Efficient use of the i ...

E D P SCIENCES2023