Materials for future nuclear energy systems

GS Was, D Petti, S Ukai, S Zinkle - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Materials for future nuclear energy systems must operate under more extreme conditions
than those in current Gen II or Gen III systems. These conditions include higher temperature …

Designing radiation resistance in materials for fusion energy

SJ Zinkle, LL Snead - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Proposed fusion and advanced (Generation IV) fission energy systems require high-
performance materials capable of satisfactory operation up to neutron damage levels …

Overview of the SPARC tokamak

AJ Creely, MJ Greenwald, SB Ballinger… - Journal of Plasma …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The SPARC tokamak is a critical next step towards commercial fusion energy. SPARC is
designed as a high-field () relevant to fusion power plants. SPARC's place in the path to …

Predicting the performance of tungsten in a fusion environment: a literature review

RG Abernethy - Materials Science and Technology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Tungsten has been proposed for use in the divertor of future fusion devices. In this
environment, it will be exposed to high heat fluxes, neutron damage and hydrogen and …

L–H power threshold studies in JET with Be/W and C wall

CF Maggi, E Delabie, TM Biewer, M Groth… - Nuclear …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
A comparison of the L–H power threshold (P thr) in JET with all carbon, JET-C, and
beryllium/tungsten wall (the ITER-like choice), JET-ILW, has been carried out in experiments …

Upgrade of Langmuir probe diagnostic in ITER-like tungsten mono-block divertor on experimental advanced superconducting tokamak

JC Xu, L Wang, GS Xu, GN Luo, DM Yao, Q Li… - Review of Scientific …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
In order to withstand rapid increase in particle and power impact onto the divertor and
demonstrate the feasibility of the ITER design under long pulse operation, the upper divertor …

Results of high heat flux tests of tungsten divertor targets under plasma heat loads expected in ITER and tokamaks

VP Budaev - Physics of Atomic Nuclei, 2016 - Springer
Heat loads on the tungsten divertor targets in the ITER and the tokamak power reactors
reach~ 10MW m− 2 in the steady state of DT discharges, increasing to~ 0.6–3.5 GW m− 2 …

Thin film depth profiling by ion beam analysis

C Jeynes, JL Colaux - Analyst, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The analysis of thin films is of central importance for functional materials, including the very
large and active field of nanomaterials. Quantitative elemental depth profiling is basic to …

Understanding edge-localized mode mitigation by resonant magnetic perturbations on MAST

A Kirk, IT Chapman, Y Liu, P Cahyna, P Denner… - Nuclear …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Sustained edge-localized mode (ELM) mitigation has been achieved using resonant
magnetic perturbations (RMPs) with a toroidal mode number of n= 4 and n= 6 in lower single …

Erosion and deposition in the JET divertor during the first ILW campaign

M Mayer, S Krat, W Van Renterghem… - Physica …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Erosion and deposition were studied in the JET divertor during the first JET ITER-like wall
campaign 2011 to 2012 using marker tiles. An almost complete poloidal section consisting …