Developing fusion energy entails the combination of many different disciplines including plasma physics, materials physics and engineering, computer science. In this talk, an overview will be given of the physics and technology in view of magnetic fusion reactors, including the recent achievements, the current challenges and the main developments. The contributions that the new Divertor...
The Divertor Tokamak Test facility (DTT) [1] is a research infrastructure proposed first in the EFDA Roadmap [2] to investigate innovative solutions for the heat exhaust in the DEMOnstration fusion power plant.
DTT is a compact experiment (major radius R=2.2m, minor radius 0.7m) that mimic the heat generated by fusion reactions using a large amount of external heating power (up to 45MW at...
Recent results from the DTE2 and DTE3 deuterium-tritium (DT) campaigns at the Joint European Torus demonstrated the feasibility of an alternative approach to measuring fusion yield, based on the absolute detection of DT fusion gamma rays emitted by the secondary branch of the DT reaction. Unlike conventional neutron-based fusion power diagnostics, this neutron-independent method does not...
