Conveners
RAMI & LPO session
- Didier van Houtte (CEA)
RAMI & LPO session
- HYUNSEOK KIM (Korea Institute of Fusion Energy)
In the European roadmap to fusion energy, EU-DEMO will be the first machine with a net electricity generation and demonstrating the integration of all reactor-relevant functions, e.g. self-sustaining tritium production. Currently, the EU-DEMO design is based on the tokamak configuration, with a pulsed plasma and a discharge duration not shorter than two hours. In general, the EU approach...
A critical challenge for a compact fusion pilot plant is to resolve the path to a high fusion performance core with a dissipative divertor approach, finding solutions that are mutually compatible to marry them together. This must also be integrated with surrounding plasma interacting technologies and materials. An upgrade to DIII-D is proposed to close gaps on reactor physics regimes in...
Environmentally acceptable nuclear energy is an important component of global energy today. However, the difficulties associated with the production of nuclear fuel, reprocessing and disposal of radioactive waste from fission reactors limit its development. The integration of technologies can ensure long-term and sustainable development of the world energy system. One of the most promising...
The major goal of EAST is to demonstrate long-pulse high-performance regime with tungsten wall for scientific understanding in support of future fusion device. Recently, one hundred-seconds steady-state plasmas adapted to reactor-relevant parameters have been achieved in high poloidal beta scenario: (1) a fully non-inductive plasma with high density (ne/nGW ~0.82) and high bootstrap current...
The typical pulse on the JET tokamak is ~10s during the main phase of the discharge, however long discharge operation (>30s) is possible with sufficient preparation and care. During the last period of JET operation in 2023 long pulses in deuterium plasmas were developed to assess the sustainment of the plasma performance over several times the current resistive time scale and to address...
