First demonstration of Super-X divertor exhaust control for transient heat load management in compact fusion reactors
B. Kool, K. Verhaegh, G. L. Derks, T. A. Wijkamp, N. Lonigro, R. Doyle, G. McArdle, C. Vincent, J. Lovell, F. Federici, S. S. Henderson, R. T. Osawa, D. Brida, … 展开作者
B. Kool, K. Verhaegh, G. L. Derks, T. A. Wijkamp, N. Lonigro, R. Doyle, G. McArdle, C. Vincent, J. Lovell, F. Federici, S. S. Henderson, R. T. Osawa, D. Brida, H. Reimerdes, M. van Berkel, The EUROfusion tokamak exploitation team, the MAST-U team
Nuclear fusion could offer clean, abundant energy. However, managing the immense power exhausted from the core fusion plasma towards the divertor remains a major challenge. This is compounded in emerging compact reactor designs which promise more cost-effective pathways towards commercial fusion energy. Alternative divertor configurations (ADCs) are a potential solution to this challenge. In this work, we demonstrate exhaust control in ADCs for the first time, on MAST-U. We employ a novel diagnostic strategy for the neutral gas buffer which shields the target. Our work shows that ADCs tackle key risks and uncertainties in realising fusion energy: 1) an enlarged operating window which 2) improves exhaust control through the absorption of transients which can remove the neutral shield and damage the divertor, 3) isolation of each divertor from other reactor regions, enabling combined control. This showcases real-world benefits of alternative divertors for effective heat load management and control in reactors.
Harnessing Toroidal Neutral Flows to Enhance Divertor Particle Exhaust
Gauss Fusion GmbH（高斯聚变有限公司）；Oak Ridge National Laboratory（橡树岭国家实验室）；United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority（英国原子能管理局）；University of York（约克大学）；RI Research Instruments GmbH（RI研究仪器有限公司）
High-power TCV scenario for conventional and alternative divertor studies
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics（马克斯·普朗克等离子体物理研究所）；Eindhoven University of Technology（埃因霍温理工大学）；DIFFER - Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research（荷兰基础能源研究院）
Initial evaluation of miniature ultra-high-field commercial stellarator reactors with breeding external to resistive coils
Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, CIEMAT（国家聚变实验室，CIEMAT）；Departamento de Física, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid（马德里卡洛斯三世大学物理系）；Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)（橡树岭国家实验室）；University of Texas, Austin（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校）
Predicting Thermal Stress and Failure Risk in Monoblock Divertors Using 2D Finite Difference Modelling and Gradient Boosting Regression for Fusion Energy Applications
The Negative Triangularity Tokamak Path for Fusion Pilot Plants: Experimental Progress and Future Prospects
General Atomics（通用原子能公司）；Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas – Austin（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校聚变研究所）；Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)（洛桑联邦理工学院）；University of California, San Diego（加州大学圣地亚哥分校）；Columbia University（哥伦比亚大学）；Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory（劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室）；Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT（麻省理工学院等离子体科学与聚变中心）
Spacecraft heat shield study in the DIII-D tokamak
University of California San Diego（加州大学圣迭戈分校）；Auburn University（奥本大学）；General Atomics（通用原子能公司）；Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory（普林斯顿等离子体物理实验室）；Baylor University（贝勒大学）；University of Stuttgart（斯图加特大学）；Oak Ridge National Laboratory（橡树岭国家实验室）；Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory（劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室）
Multi-Machine Scaling Laws for Fuel and Impurity Puffing Rates Sufficient for Detachment Access: a Systematic Review of Magnetic Confinement Fusion Devices
Gauss Fusion GmbH（高斯聚变有限公司）；United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority（英国原子能管理局）；Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik（马克斯·普朗克等离子体物理研究所）；EUROfusion Consortium（欧洲聚变联盟）；Karlsruhe Institute of Technology（卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院）
Advantage-level Aggregation Reinforcement Learning for X-point Target Magnetic Configuration Control in an EXL-50U Experiment-Calibrated Simulation Environment
Beijing ENN Fusion Energy Science and Technology Co., Ltd.（北京新奥融合能源科技有限公司）；Beijing Key Laboratory of High Magnetic Field Spherical Torus Fusion Energy（北京强磁场球形托卡马克聚变能源重点实验室）；Hebei Key Laboratory of Compact Fusion（河北省紧凑型聚变重点实验室）；Dalian University of Technology（大连理工大学）；School of Physics, Dalian University of Technology（大连理工大学物理学院）；Key Laboratory of Materials Modification by Beams of the Ministry of Education（教育部材料表面与界面工程重点实验室）；School of Nuclear Science and Engineering, East China University of Technology（东华理工大学核科学与工程学院）；East China University of Technology（东华理工大学）；School of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Peking University（北京大学力学与工程科学学院）；Peking University（北京大学）
