Tritium is a sustainable next‐generation prime fuel for generating nuclear energy through
fusion reactions to fulfill the increasing global energy demand. Owing to the scarcity–high …

The plasma design point during stationary phase operation of EU-DEMO has been
described extensively in the past, and the assumptions employed for its definition have been …

Experimental findings to contribute to the preliminary design of a metal foil pump for fuel
separation in the Direct Internal Recycling loop of the DEMO fusion device are presented. In …

Making fusion power viable both technologically and commercially has been a challenge for
decades due to the great complexity of the science and engineering challenges. In recent …

Abstract The European Demonstration Fusion Power Reactor (EU-DEMO) has to operate in
a completely tritium self-sufficient mode after initial start-up, which includes producing …

WEST database analysis shows a correlation of the recycled neutral source around the
separatrix with core performances. This observation questions the causality chain between …

The commercial generation of electricity and high-temperature thermal energy via fusion
technology remains one of the promising alternatives to help meet the challenging targets to …

Any good design of fuel cycles for thermonuclear fusion reactors, which operate on
deuterium-tritium fusion, comes with minimized tritium inventory. The direct internal recycling …

Argon doped deuterium pellets with about 1 per mille Ar atomic fraction have been injected
into ASDEX Upgrade H-mode discharges and demonstrate fast and efficient power removal …

The interest of the fusion community in Pd–Ag membranes has grown in the last decades
due to the high value of hydrogen permeability and the possibility of continuous operation …