The JET hybrid scenario in Deuterium, Tritium and Deuterium-Tritium
- Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching (Germany)
- Culham Science Centre, Abingdon (United Kingdom). Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association
- Culham Science Centre, Abingdon (United Kingdom). Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association; Laboratory for Plasma Physics LPP-ERM/KMS, Brussels (Belgium)
- Culham Science Centre, Abingdon (United Kingdom). Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association; NCSR ‘Demokritos’, Agia Paraskevi (Greece)
- Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi (ISTP-CNR), Milan (Italy)
- Consorzio RFX, (CNR, ENEA, INFN, Università di Padova, Acciaierie Venete SpA) (Italy); Istituto per la Scienza e la Tecnologia dei Plasmi del CNR, Padova (Italy)
- ENEA Centro Ricerche Frascati, Roma (Italy)
- Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon (Portugal)
- Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon (Portugal); ITER Organization, Saint Paul Lez Durance (France)
- Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion (IPPLM), Warsaw (Poland)
- FOM institute DIFFER, Eindhoven (Netherlands)
- Queen's University, Belfast (United Kingdom)
- CEA, IRFM, Saint Paul Lez Durance (France)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Uppsala University (Sweden)
- Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Prague (Czech Republic). Institute of Plasma Physics
- Culham Science Centre, Abingdon (United Kingdom). Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association; Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland)
- Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), Madrid (Spain). Laboratorio Nacional de Fusion
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)
- University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' (Italy)
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain)
- Culham Science Centre, Abingdon (United Kingdom). Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association; Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Aalto University (Finland)
- Culham Science Centre, Abingdon (United Kingdom). Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association; European Commission, Brussels (Belgium)
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain); ICREA, Barcelona (Spain)
- University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
- National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Magurele-Bucharest (Romania)
- Laboratory for Plasma Physics LPP-ERM/KMS, Brussels (Belgium)
- Consorzio CREATE, Napoli (Italy)
- Consorzio RFX, (CNR, ENEA, INFN, Università di Padova, Acciaierie Venete SpA) (Italy); Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy)
- Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg (Sweden)
- European Commission, Brussels (Belgium); General Electric Company, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Lithuanian Energy Institute, Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Ghent University (Belgium)
The JET hybrid scenario has been developed from low plasma current carbon wall discharges to the record-breaking Deuterium-Tritium plasmas obtained in 2021 with the ITER-like Be/W wall. The development started in pure Deuterium with refinement of the plasma current, and toroidal magnetic field choices and succeeded in solving the heat load challenges arising from 37 MW of injected power in the ITER like wall environment, keeping the radiation in the edge and core controlled, avoiding MHD instabilities and reaching high neutron rates. The Deuterium hybrid plasmas have been re-run in Tritium and methods have been found to keep the radiation controlled but not at high fusion performance probably due to time constraints. For the first time this scenario has been run in Deuterium-Tritium (50:50). These plasmas were re-optimised to have a radiation-stable H-mode entry phase, good impurity control through edge Ti gradient screening and optimised performance with fusion power exceeding 10 MW for longer than three alpha particle slow down times, 8.3 MW averaged over 5 s and fusion energy of 45.8 MJ.
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- Contributing Organization:
- JET Contributors
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-09CH11466
- OSTI ID:
- 2217309
- Journal Information:
- Nuclear Fusion, Journal Name: Nuclear Fusion Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 63; ISSN 0029-5515
- Publisher:
- IOP ScienceCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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