Fusion Group – Page 52

BSC fusion results at the ITPA meeting in Naka, Japan

November 3, 2016November 8, 2016

Last week, 24-26 October 2016, our fusion group member Shimpei Futatani attended the ITPA Meeting in Naka, which provides a framework for internationally coordinated fusion research activities.

Shimpei gave an oral presentation on his work ‘Non-linear MHD modelling of pellet triggered ELMs’ at the meeting. The work contributes to the physics understanding of pellet triggered ELM in JET and ASDEX Upgrade tokamaks and has been carried out within EUROfusion, the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy.

New flexible neutral particle beam system for improved control of fusion energy

October 25, 2016October 25, 2016

Researchers working at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics (GA), in collaboration with scientists from University of California-Irvine and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, have created an important new tool for controlling energy-producing plasma in fusion devices. This work will be published in the January 2017 edition of Nuclear Fusion.

BSC Fusion Group at the IAEA Fusion Energy Conference in Kyoto, Japan

October 22, 2016October 22, 2016

This week, 17-22 October 2016, our Fusion Group member Shimpei Futatani has attended the 26^th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference in Kyoto, which is one of the important international conferences in the field of fusion energy research. It provides a forum for the discussion of key physics and technology issues as well as innovative concepts of direct relevance to the use of nuclear fusion as a source of energy.

JET experimental campaign in full swing

October 20, 2016October 22, 2016

2016-10-19-22-02-45 — JET control room at the end of M15-02 session on October 19.

Our Fusion Group members Mervi Mantsinen and Dani Gallart are currently on a EUROfusion mission to the Culham Center for Fusion Energy, UK, to take part in the C36b experimental campaign of the JET tokamak. The campaign started on the 10^th of October 2016 and is now in full swing.

New Record for a Fusion Reactor

October 17, 2016October 22, 2016

mit-alcator-record-1_0 — Interior of Alcator C-Mod reactor (Bob Mumgaard. PSFC)

A new world record for plasma pressure has been achieved in the Alcator C-Mod tokamak nuclear fusion reactor located at MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC).

The new record raises the mark to 2.05 atmospheres, that is a 15 percent improvement over the previous record of 1.77 atmospheres, obtained in the same fusion reactor in 2005.

Meeting of High Level Support Team

October 7, 2016October 22, 2016

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On 6 October 2016, our Fusion group member Xavier Sáez visited the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany, to participate in the meeting of the EUROfusion High Level Support Team (HLST).

Xavier has presented the work developed in the group to improve the performance of SFINCS code. This code is a novel drift-kinetic solver which can be used to predict neoclassical flows in 3D magnetic configurations.