Reliable mitigation is necessary to eliminate the detrimental effects of a disruption event in
large high-current tokamaks such as ITER. To avoid serious damage to plasma-facing …

Mitigating disruptions is essential for the longevity of future large tokamak experimental
devices and reactors. Currently, shattered pellet injection (SPI) technique is the most …

Mitigation of disruption events in future high energy density tokamaks is essential for
machine longevity. The creation of runaway electrons, large electromagnetic forces, and …

Shattered pellet injection (SPI) has been chosen as the baseline disruption mitigation
system on ITER due to its ability to rapidly inject material deep into the plasma to greatly …

The technology to form and shoot high-Z cryogenic solid pellets mixed with deuterium using
a gas gun that are shattered upon injection into a plasma has been developed at Oak Ridge …

Shattered pellet injection (SPI) systems that form cryogenic pellets in a pipe-gun for injection
of material to mitigate disruptions have been fabricated and installed for use in thermal …

Disruptions are sudden unplanned terminations of tokamak plasmas that can lead to high
thermal loads and runaway electrons (REs). Unmitigated disruptions in ITER are predicted …

Shattered pellet injection (SPI) has been selected as the baseline technology for the
disruption mitigation (DM) system for ITER. Typical SPI utilizes cryogenic cooling to …

Amongst the technological developments needed for ITER, the disruption mitigation system
(DMS) is one of the most challenging since it has to mitigate the consequences of high …

A disruption mitigation system (DMS) is under design for ITER to inject sufficient material
deeply into the plasma for rapid plasma thermal shutdown and collisional suppression of …