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Scoping and modeling of runaway electron impacts in SPARC Oral
Abigail Feyrer (MIT PSFC)
T. Looby, R. Sweeney, R.A. Tinguely
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PPTX, 2024-06-12 21:49:32
SCHEDULED This contribution is scheduled to be presented on Thursday 13th 16:15-16:40
Abstract
The goal of this work is to assess potential runaway electron first wall impacts in the SPARC tokamak (Bt=12.2T, Ip=8.7MA), which is currently being built by Commonwealth Fusion Systems for demonstration of fusion gain Q>1. A simple analytical model is used to identify the operational plasma currents where runaway electrons could cause wall melting, and a threshold of around 1MA is where runaway impacts may start to cause concern, depending on the wetted area. Runaway electrons have been implemented into the simulation code HEAT[^1] to calculate the trajectory, energy deposition, and resulting plasma facing component temperatures from runaway electron impacts. Preliminary simulation results are shown. This work is supported in part by Commonwealth Fusion Systems. [^1]: Looby, T., Reinke, M., Wingen, A., Menard, J., Gerhardt, S., Gray, T., Donovan, D., Unterberg, E., Klabacha, J., & Messineo, M. (2022). A Software Package for Plasma-Facing Component Analysis and Design: The Heat Flux Engineering Analysis Toolkit (HEAT). Fusion Science and Technology, 78(1), 10–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1951532
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