Study of Tokamak Plasma Disruptions and Runaway Electrons in a Metallic Environment PDF Download

Author: Sundaresan Sridhar
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Languages : en
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Tokamaks are the devices currently closest to achieve nuclear fusion power and disruptions are unfavorable events in which the plasma energy is lost in a very short timescale causing damage to tokamak structures. RE beams are one of the consequence of disruptions and they carry the risk of in-vessel component damage. Thus, the prevention and control of the RE are of prime importance. The current strategy for runaway electrons is to avoid their generation by a massive material injection (MMI). If their generation cannot be avoided, a 2nd MMI will be used to mitigate the generated RE beam. After the 1st MMI to prevent RE generation, a background plasma of 1st MMI impurities is formed which make the second MMI inefficient to mitigate RE beams inefficient, as observed in the JET tokamak. In this thesis, the physics of the interaction between the RE beam and the mitigation MMI in the presence of a cold background plasma is studied.