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The electron-cyclotron heating system of the TCV tokamak is being enhanced as part of a major upgrade. Two MW-class dual-frequency gyrotrons will be installed. The first has already been delivered and will be fully commissioned on-site by the end of 2018 w ...

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An 1 MW long-pulse (2s), 84/126 GHz dual frequency gyrotron has been produced by THALES MSI, France responding to the needs for upgrading the ECH system of the TCV tokamak The initial tests of the prototype carried out at EPFL, Switzerland, have verified a ...

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Paolo Ricci, Paola Paruta, Maurizio Giacomin, Carrie Fiona Beadle, André Calado Coroado

Abstract The study of scrape-off layer (SOL) is a fundamental step in magnetic confinement fusion research. For example, SOL sets the boundary conditions for the tokamak core and it provides the energy flux toward the tokamak wall. With the goal of improvi ...

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Latest DBS and Pulse reflectometer developments in the TCV tokamak are presented ...

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Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin

Tokamaks and stellarators are the most promising reactor concepts using the magnetic confinement to contain the plasma fuel. Reactors capable of sustaining deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion reactions requires the confinement of a very high temperature plasma ...

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Multi-device studies of pedestal physics and confinement in the I-mode regime

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Flux-tube and global grid-based gyrokinetic simulations of plasma microturbulence and comparisons with experimental TCV measurements

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In magnetic fusion devices, the radial transport of heat and particle largely exceeds predictions based on collisional processes. This is widely understood as a consequence of small-scale turbulence which results from the nonlinear behaviour of so-called m ...

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