Name: Third Technical Meeting on Plasma Disruptions and their Mitigation
Start: 2024-09-03T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-06T16:55:00+02:00
Location: ITER Headquarters

Third Technical Meeting on Plasma Disruptions and their Mitigation

from Tuesday 3 September 2024 (08:30) to Friday 6 September 2024 (16:55)

Monday 2 September 2024
Tuesday 3 September 2024

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:15
Room: Council Room
Contributions

09:00 Opening - Stefan Jachmich (ITER Organization)

09:03 Welcome from DDG of the ITER Organization - Yutaka Kamada (QST)

09:13 Welcome from IAEA - Matteo Barbarino (International Atomic Energy Agency)

09:18 In memoriam Michael Lehnen - Richard Pitts (ITER Organization)

09:25 ITER project status - Alberto Loarte (ITER Organization)

09:50 ITER DMS design and plans - Uron Kruezi
10:15 Coffee
Coffee
10:15 - 10:35
Room: Council Room Lobby
10:35
10:35 - 12:55
Room: Council Room
Contributions

10:35 Control of elongated plasmas in superconducting tokamaks in the absence of in-vessel coils - Gianmaria De Tommasi (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

11:15 Tokamak plasmas in MST with density up to ten times the Greenwald limit - Brett E. Chapman (UW-Madison)

11:40 Correlation of the tokamak density limit with edge collisionality - Andrew Maris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

12:05 RESISTIVE WALL TEARING MODE MAJOR DISRUPTIONS WITH FEEDBACK - Henry Strauss (HRS Fusion)

12:30 Non-equilibrium perturbations of the vertically unstable mode in tokamaks - Nicola Isernia (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
12:55 Lunch
Lunch
12:55 - 13:55
13:55
13:55 - 14:55
Room: Entrance Lobby
Contributions

13:55 Cross-tokamak disruption prediction via domain adaptation and generalization

13:55 Assessment of RE transport induced by the DIII-D REMC with ASCOT5 - Valerie Izzo (Fiat Lux)

13:55 Multimodal super-resolution diagnostics for analyzing fast transient events in fusion plasma - Azarakhsh Jalalvand (Princeton University)

13:55 Runaway Electrons in JET - Status of RE Data after End of JET Operations in 2023 - Vladislav Plyusnin (Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Associação EURATOM-IST, Instituto Superior Tecnico)

13:55 Implementation of a cross-device model for halo current in the DECAF code as a criterion for the determination of disruption mitigation action - Veronika Zamkovska (Columbia University)

13:55 Advances in High Accuracy Physics-Based Tokamak Disruption Event Characterization and Forecasting Including Real-time Deployment - Steven Sabbagh (Columbia University)

13:55 Electromagnetic and heat loads on tokamak walls as a consequence of disruption - Saira Gulfam (Pakistan Tokamak Plasma Research Institute)

13:55 Ultrafast actuator development for shattered pellet injectors - fast, high pressure valve and ITER DMS Shutter - Daniel Imre Refy (HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research)

13:55 WEIBEL INSTABILITY DUE TO NONLINEAR INVERSE BREMSSTRAHLUNG ABSRPTION IN MAGNETIZED FUSION PLASMA - Abdelaziz Sid (PRIMALAB laboratory, University of Batna 1)

13:55 Validation of Miyamoto’s formula (for the total force on the vessel following disruption) with ASDEX Upgrade measurements - Gabriella Pautasso

13:55 Heat loading of Pulsed Hydrogen Plasma Stream on Tungsten Substrate - TRIDIP KUMAR BORTHAKUR (CENTRE OF PLASMA PHYSISCS INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA RESEARCH)

13:55 Thermal Quench and its diagnostics at JET - Sergei Gerasimov (CCFE)

13:55 Progress of mitigating plasma disruption by the shattered pellet injection in EAST - jingsheng Yuan (Institute of Plasma Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences)

13:55 Validation of Extended-Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling of KSTAR Disruption Mitigation with Collisional-Radiative Impurities - Brendan Lyons (General Atomics)

13:55 Study of the halo current region resistivity on the DIII-D tokamak - Andrey Lvovskiy (General Atomics)

13:55 Assessment of vertical controllability using DECAF, and predictive capability of a vertical stability metric for tokamak plasmas - Matt Tobin (Columbia University)

13:55 Summary of dispersive shell pellet injection experiments on DIII-D - Grant Bodner (General Atomics)

13:55 Observation of runaway plateaus in EAST disruptions triggered by MGI - tian tang

13:55 Transfer learning with a parsimonious disruption predictor: from JET C-wall to the metallic wall - Jesús Vega (CIEMAT)
14:55
14:55 - 16:00
Room: Council Room
Contributions

14:55 Cross Tokamak Disruption Prediction with Different Methods and from Different Perspectives - Wei Zheng (International Joint Research Laboratory of Magnetic Confinement Fusion and Plasma Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

15:35 Implementing deep learning-based disruption predictor in a shifting data environment of new tokamak：HL-3 - Zongyu Yang
16:00 Coffee
Coffee
16:00 - 16:20
Room: Council Room Lobby
16:20
16:20 - 18:00
Room: Council Room
Contributions

16:20 Combining Adaptive Learning and Physics-Guided Machine Learning for Prediction and Control of Anomalies and Disruptions in Tokamaks - Riccardo Rossi (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata)

16:45 Advancing Interpretability in Artificial Intelligence Disruption Prediction Models: A Cross-Tokamak Perspective - Giuliana Sias (ENEA -University of Cagliari)

17:10 Time-to-Disruption Estimation Using LSTM Networks - Giuseppe Ratta

17:35 DECAF update and study of the relationship between electron temperature collapses and disruption triggering through DECAF analysis - Guillermo Bustos Ramirez (Columbia University)
Wednesday 4 September 2024
09:00
09:00 - 10:35
Room: Council Room
Contributions

09:00 Development and preliminary calibration of an off-normal warning system for SPARC - Alex Saperstein (MIT - PSFC)

09:25 Machine Learning model for real-time SPARC vertical stability observers - Arunav Kumar

09:50 P&A discussion - Carlo Sozzi (Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi ISTP-CNR Milano Italy)
10:35 Coffee
Coffee
10:35 - 10:55
Room: Council Room Lobby
10:55
10:55 - 12:25
Room: Council Room
Contributions

10:55 Overview of the ASDEX Upgrade shattered pellet injection studies - Paul Heinrich (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik)

11:35 Thermal Energy Mitigation and Toroidal Peaking Effects in JET Disruptions - Benjamin Stein-Lubrano (Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

12:00 Pellet Size Optimization for the ITER SPI - Umar Sheikh (SPC-EPFL)
12:25 Lunch
Lunch
12:25 - 13:30

13:30

13:30 - 15:00
Room: Entrance Lobby
15:00
15:00 - 16:05
Room: Council Room
Contributions

15:00 The Effect of Externally Applied and Self-Excited Waves on Relativistic Electrons - Alexander Battey (Columbia University)

15:40 Effect of Electron Cyclotron Waves on Plasma with Runaway Electrons - Pavel Aleynikov (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik)
16:05 Coffee
Coffee
16:05 - 16:25
16:25
16:25 - 17:40
Room: Council Room
Contributions

16:25 Plasmoid drift and first wall heat deposition during ITER H-mode dual-SPIs in JOREK simulations - Di Hu (Beihang University)

16:50 Pellet fragmentation process in the context of the SPI technology for the ITER DMS: analysis of the fragment characteristics supported by numerical simulations and image diagnostics of shatter tests - Pascal Matura (Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI) Stefano Signetti (Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI)

17:15 Shattered Pellet Technology and related developments at the ITER DMS support laboratory - Sandor Zoletnik (HUN-REN Centre for Energy Reserach)
Thursday 5 September 2024
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Council Room
Contributions

09:00 Assimilation of deuterium into relativistic runaway electron beams and the implications for benign terminations in present devices, ITER, and future devices - Eric Hollmann (UC San Diego)

09:40 Runaway mitigation and safe termination during startup and disruptions - Xianzhu Tang (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:05 Preparing disruption solutions for tokamak power plants - Ryan Sweeney (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 10:50
Room: Council Room Lobby
10:50
10:50 - 12:00
Room: Council Room
Contributions

10:50 Disruption mitigation in tokamak by Fast Gas and Macroparticles Injection - Petr Savrukhin (Institution “Project center ITER”, Moscow, 123060, Russia)

11:15 MIT Discussion - Eric Nardon (CEA)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:05

13:05

13:05 - 15:15
15:15
15:15 - 16:20
Room: Council Room
Contributions

15:15 Modelling of runaway electron – induced PFC damage - Svetlana Ratynskaia (Royal Institute of Technology KTH)

15:55 Characterization of transient heat flux induced damages of tungsten PFCs during plasma disruption in EAST - Dahuan Zhu (Institute of Plasma Physics，Chinese Academy of Sciences)
16:20 Coffee
Coffee
16:20 - 16:40
Room: Council Room Lobby
16:40
16:40 - 17:55
Room: Council Room
Contributions

16:40 Electric field effects during disruptions} - Allen Boozer (Columbia University)

17:05 Fluid and kinetic modeling of runaway electron seed generation during disruptions - Ida Ekmark (Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)

17:30 Preliminary Design of Halo Machine - Vadim Yanovskiy (Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Friday 6 September 2024
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Council Room
Contributions

09:00 Practical model for AVDE loads calculations - Sergei Sadakov (ITER IO (Emeritus Fellow))

09:40 Validating Hot and Cold VDEs in C-Mod with M3D-C1 - Cesar Clauser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:05 Prediction and validation of disruption-induced eddy currents and forces within engineering design cycles using ThinCurr and TokaMaker - Chris Hansen (Columbia University)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 10:50
Room: Council Room Lobby
10:50
10:50 - 12:00
Room: Council Room
Contributions

10:50 Characteristics of the thermal-quench process in the EAST disruptions and its interpretive MHD modelling with JOREK - Long Zeng (Tsinghua University)

11:15 Cons Discussion
12:00

12:00 - 12:40
Room: Council Room

12:40 Lunch (optional)
Lunch (optional)
12:40 - 14:00