J. D. Weberski, M. W. Bongard, S. J. Diem, R. J. Fonck, J. A. Goetz, M. D. Nornberg, J. A. Reusch, C. E. Schaefer, A. C. Sontag
{"title":"Effects of Injected Current Streams on MHD Equilibrium Reconstruction of Local Helicity Injection Plasmas in a Spherical Tokamak","authors":"J. D. Weberski, M. W. Bongard, S. J. Diem, R. J. Fonck, J. A. Goetz, M. D. Nornberg, J. A. Reusch, C. E. Schaefer, A. C. Sontag","doi":"10.1007/s10894-024-00460-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10894-024-00460-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Open field line currents are intrinsic to DC helicity injection plasma startup and pose a challenge for inferring the plasma equilibrium with standard reconstruction analysis. Local helicity injection (LHI) is a type of DC helicity injection which uses small, modular current sources to drive force-free current along helical field lines to produce tokamak plasmas. MHD modeling and magnetic measurements during LHI indicate the injected current streams remain coherent as helical structures on the outboard edge of a core toroidal plasma that is tokamak-like in a toroidally averaged sense. To extract core plasma equilibrium properties, external magnetic diagnostics corrected for contributions from the injected current streams are fitted by a standard Grad-Shafranov equilibrium code. An iterative approach for estimating and subtracting the stream contributions from the diagnostic signals is described and applied to a model equilibrium database to reduce systematic errors introduced by the streams. Convergence is usually attained with 2 to 4 iterations, with derived equilibrium parameters matching the prescribed axisymmetric core values to within estimated experimental uncertainties. Accurate recovery of core parameters occurs when the ratio of the net toroidal windup current from the streams to the core plasma current is less than 0.2, which is typically satisfied in most experiments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":634,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fusion Energy","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10894-024-00460-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142411493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Rahimirad, M. Emami, M. Ghoranneviss, A. Salar Elahi
{"title":"Retraction Note: Demonstration of Shafranov Shift by the Simplest Grad–Shafranov Equation Solution in IR-T1 Tokamak","authors":"A. Rahimirad, M. Emami, M. Ghoranneviss, A. Salar Elahi","doi":"10.1007/s10894-024-00468-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10894-024-00468-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":634,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fusion Energy","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142411495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retraction Note: Multipole Moments Based Study on Determination of Toroidal Plasma Equilibrium Position and Shift","authors":"Ahmad Salar Elahi","doi":"10.1007/s10894-024-00469-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10894-024-00469-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":634,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fusion Energy","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142411494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Moniri, M. Ghoranneviss, M. R. Hantehzadeh, A. Salar Elahi
{"title":"Retraction Note: Nano-Scale Precipitates of Reduced Activation Steels for the Application of Nuclear Fusion Reactors","authors":"S. Moniri, M. Ghoranneviss, M. R. Hantehzadeh, A. Salar Elahi","doi":"10.1007/s10894-024-00462-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10894-024-00462-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":634,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fusion Energy","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142411013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Naima Amrani, Cafer Mert Yeşilkanat, Serkan Akkoyun
{"title":"Neutron-Alpha Reaction Cross Section Determination by Machine Learning Approaches","authors":"Naima Amrani, Cafer Mert Yeşilkanat, Serkan Akkoyun","doi":"10.1007/s10894-024-00461-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10894-024-00461-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study focuses on leveraging powerful machine learning approaches to determine neutron- alpha reaction cross-sections within the 14–15 MeV energy range. The investigation utilizes an experimental dataset comprising measurements of 133 nuclei concerning (<i>n</i>,<i> α</i>) reaction cross- sections. These data are divided into training and validation subsets, following established protocols, with 80% allocated for model training and 20% for testing. Key nucleus characteristics, including neutron number (<i>N</i>), mass number (<i>A</i>), and symmetry representation [(<i>N</i>-<i>Z</i>)²/<i>A</i>], were used as input variables for the machine learning models. SVR and XGBoost methods showed superior performance among the other machine learning methods used in the present study. In addition, a machine learning based online calculation tool was developed to estimate the reaction cross section.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":634,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fusion Energy","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142410886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retraction Note: Effects of Hot Limiter Biasing on Tokamak Runaway Discharges","authors":"A. Salar Elahi, M. Ghoranneviss, M. R. Ghanbari","doi":"10.1007/s10894-024-00464-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10894-024-00464-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":634,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fusion Energy","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142411008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Naghidokht, R. Khodabakhsh, M. Ghoranneviss, A. Salar Elahi
{"title":"Retraction Note: Feedback System Design for Plasma Horizontal Position Control in IR-T1 Tokamak","authors":"A. Naghidokht, R. Khodabakhsh, M. Ghoranneviss, A. Salar Elahi","doi":"10.1007/s10894-024-00463-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10894-024-00463-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":634,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fusion Energy","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142410933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Abbasi, J. Mlynar, J. Chlum, O. Ficker, V. Svoboda, J. Brotankova
{"title":"Artificial Neural Network-Based Tomography Reconstruction of Plasma Radiation Distribution at GOLEM Tokamak","authors":"S. Abbasi, J. Mlynar, J. Chlum, O. Ficker, V. Svoboda, J. Brotankova","doi":"10.1007/s10894-024-00458-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10894-024-00458-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The paper presents an artificial neural network-based model for tomography reconstruction of visible plasma radiation distribution at the GOLEM tokamak. The model was trained using a dataset from emissivity phantoms and associated synthetic measurements from a poloidal cross-section of the GOLEM tokamak. The model validation was performed on the prediction of various unseen phantom samples with shapes similar to those in the training dataset. The backfit of line-integrated measurements indicates the considerable potential of the proposed model for reconstructing the position, size, shape and intensity of the radiation function of one cross section. Additionally, the neural network-based model offers a significantly shorter prediction time compared to traditional tomography methods, providing a substantial advantage.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":634,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fusion Energy","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142226522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmad Rahimirad, M. Emami, M. Ghoranneviss, A. Salar Elahi
{"title":"Retraction Note: Comparison between Discrete Magnetic Coils and Multipole Coils for Measurement of Plasma Displacement in IR-T1 Tokamak","authors":"Ahmad Rahimirad, M. Emami, M. Ghoranneviss, A. Salar Elahi","doi":"10.1007/s10894-024-00459-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10894-024-00459-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":634,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fusion Energy","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142414742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative Study on the Reduction of Tritium Breeding Ratio Caused by Inventory Changes of a Solid-State Tritium Breeding Blanket in a Fusion Demonstration Reactor Using MCNP and FISPACT-II","authors":"Byung Chul Kim","doi":"10.1007/s10894-024-00455-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10894-024-00455-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The self-sufficient supply of tritium in the deuterium-tritium nuclear fusion demonstration reactor (DEMO) is a fundamental design requirement. But, it is hindered by depletion of tritium breeding materials resulting in reduction of tritium breeding ratio (TBR) less than the initial design value especially in the solid-state tritium breeding blanket (TBB) of the DEMO. Unlike the liquid tritium breeding blanket of DEMO, compensation measures of the depleted breeding material in the solid-state TBB will be its substitution depending on the reduction rate of TBR. To estimate the replacement period of the solid-state TBB, it is required to estimate the reduction rate of TBR according to the operation conditions of the DEMO and the physical configuration of a solid-state TBB. In this study, the representative simulation codes, MCNP and FISPACT-II, are used for assessment of the reduction rate of TBR with the benchmarking model which is modified from the one poloidal segment of the TBB in the Korean-DEMO. After 3 full power-year operations with the neutron irradiation with the benchmarking model, the TBR simulated by MCNP is reduced to 96.84% of the initially calculated TBR, but the TBR calculated by FISPACT-II is reduced to 90.57% of the initially calculated TBR.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":634,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fusion Energy","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10894-024-00455-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141927345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}