Publications by Francesco Pastore

Real-time density profile simulations on ASDEX Upgrade and the impact of the edge boundary condition

The plasma density is a crucial parameter of tokamak discharge as it impacts the fusion power, stability limits, influences detachment onset and impurities transport. The electron density profile shaping affects the deposition location of the external heat ...

Elsevier BV2025

Model-based estimation of tokamak plasma profiles and physics parameters: algorithm overview and application to ITER

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Francesco Carpanese, Cassandre Ekta Contré, Reinart Andreas J. Coosemans, Francesco Pastore

Combining dynamic models and measurements into a consistent plasma state estimate is an important challenge for ITER and DEMO, due to the inherent limitations regarding diagnostic coverage in a nuclear fusion reactor environment. In this work, a model-base ...

2025

𝑋-Point Target Radiator Regime in Tokamak Divertor Plasmas

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Artur Perek, Luke Simons, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Daniele Hamm, Francesco Pastore, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich

Fusion plasma regimes with a strongly radiating magnetic 𝑋 point are promising candidates to tackle the outstanding power exhaust challenge in reactor-scale devices. In this Letter, we report on a new type of 𝑋-point radiator, the XPTR (𝑋-point target radi ...

American Physical Society (APS)2025

Experimental research on the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Stefano Alberti, Ivo Furno, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes

Tokamak à configuration variable (TCV), recently celebrating 30 years of near-continual operation, continues in its missions to advance outstanding key physics and operational scenario issues for ITER and the design of future power plants such as DEMO. The ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

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

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler

Within the 9th European Framework programme, since 2021 EUROfusion is operating five tokamaks under the auspices of a single Task Force called ‘Tokamak Exploitation’. The goal is to benefit from the complementary capabilities of each machine in a coordinat ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024