Plasma Strike-Point Sweeping on JET Tokamak With the eXtreme Shape Controller

G. Ambrosino, M. Ariola, G. De Tommasi, A. Pironti, F. Sartori, E. Joffrin, F. Villone

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science · 2008 · 22 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

<para xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> The high-energy ionized particles collected by the divertor structures in a tokamak reactor cause a localized thermal load around the strike-points, which are the intersections of the separatrix with the divertor tiles. To spread on a larger region this thermal load, it is convenient to resort to a sweeping, i.e., a periodical movement of the strike-points. This paper introduces the new model-based sweeping algorithm recently implemented on the Joint European Torus tokamak, within the eXtreme Shape Controller architecture. </para>

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