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The role of neutral baffling in current and future tokamaks – plasma strand project
Supervisors: David Moulton (UKAEA) – main supervisor & Christopher Ridgers (University of York). Dealing with the extreme heat at the edge of a magnetically confined fusion (MCF) device is one...
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Novel Approaches to Investigate Structural Properties of Nuclear Materials – materials strand project
Supervisor: James Marrow (University of Oxford) For nuclear materials, it is important to understand how irradiation and high temperatures affect mechanical properties such as strength and toughness. Neutron irradiated materials...
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In situ analysis of crack fields and crack propagation – materials strand project
Supervisor: James Marrow (University of Oxford) The safety and economic operation of future fusion systems will depend on their tolerance to damage by processes such as fatigue and fracture, These...
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Atomic scale investigation of fusion radiation effects in silicon carbide – materials strand project
Supervisor: Robert Harrison (University of Manchester) Fusion -specific radiation damage in silicon carbide has not been investigated sufficiently to qualify components for use in reactor . Specifically, transmutation effects in...
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Using multivariate statistical surrogate models of displacement cascades to simulate high-dose irradiation damage – materials strand project
Supervisor: Christopher Race (University of Sheffield) The materials of a fusion reactor must survive for many years in an incredibly harsh environment. This includes constant bombardment by high energy neutrons,...
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Development and validation of reduced models for transport in spherical tokamaks – plasma strand project
Supervisor/s: Francis Casson (UKAEA, lead), David Dickinson (University of York). Plasma turbulence acts to degrade the confinement of particles and heat in magnetic confinement devices, such as tokamaks. Worse confinement...
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Integrated computational risk assessment for fusion materials – materials strand project
Supervisor/s: Joao Quinta da Fonseca and Tom Flint (University of Manchester) The quantification of uncertainty in material behaviour and risk of failure is urgently needed to accelerate the design and...
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Nonlinear generalised gyrokinetic modelling of electromagnetic turbulence in finite beta plasmas representative of MAST U and STEP – plasma strand project
Supervisor/s – Daniel Kennedy (UKAEA, lead), Alexandra Dudkovskaia (University of York), David Dickinson (University of York) In a tokamak, the plasma (typically anticipated to include deuterium and tritium in a...
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Development of a 2.5 MeV neutron spectrometer for JT-60SA – plasma strand project
Supervisors: Marco Cecconello (Durham University), Anders Hjalmarsson (Uppsala). JT-60SA is the largest superconducting tokamak in the world and it has just recently achieved its first plasmas indicating that it is...
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Fuel-ion studies in high-performance JET deuterium-tritium experiments – Plasma Strand Project
Supervisors: Marco Cecconello (Durham University), Jacob Ericsson (Uppsala University) The Joint European Torus (JET) is currently the largest tokamak in the world, as well as the only tokamak capable of...