The PRIMA Test Facility: SPIDER and MITICA test-beds for ITER neutral beam injectors

V Toigo, R Piovan, S Dal Bello, E Gaio… - New Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility (NBTF), called PRIMA (Padova Research on
ITER Megavolt Accelerator), is hosted in Padova, Italy and includes two experiments …

Progress in the realization of the PRIMA neutral beam test facility

V Toigo, D Boilson, T Bonicelli, R Piovan… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The ITER project requires additional heating by two neutral beam injectors, each
accelerating to 1 MV a 40 A beam of negative deuterium ions, to deliver to the plasma a …

Recent improvements to the ITER neutral beam system design

LR Grisham, P Agostinetti, G Barrera… - Fusion engineering and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The ITER [1] fusion device is expected to demonstrate the feasibility of magnetically confined
deuterium–tritium plasma as an energy source which might one day lead to practical power …

Power supply system for large negative ion sources: Early operation experience on the SPIDER experiment

A Zamengo, M Bigi, A Maistrello, M Recchia - Fusion Engineering and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the road-map for a fully operational ITER Neutral Beam Injector (NBI), SPIDER represents
a necessary step to test its negative ion source design since the required performances …

The ITER neutral beam test facility towards SPIDER operation

V Toigo, S Dal Bello, E Gaio, A Luchetta… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
SPIDER is one of two projects of the ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility under construction in
Padova, Italy, at the Consorzio RFX premises. It will have a 100 keV beam source with a full …

Neutralisation and transport of negative ion beams: physics and diagnostics

G Serianni, P Agostinetti, M Agostini… - New Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Neutral beam injection is one of the most important methods of plasma heating in
thermonuclear fusion experiments, allowing the attainment of fusion conditions as well as …

A suite of diagnostics to validate and optimize the prototype ITER neutral beam injector

R Pasqualotto, M Agostini, M Barbisan… - Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The ITER project requires additional heating provided by two neutral beam injectors using
40 A negative deuterium ions accelerated at 1 MV. As the beam requirements have never …

Status of PRIMA, the test facility for ITER neutral beam injectors

P Sonato, V Antoni, M Bigi, G Chitarin… - AIP Conference …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The ITER project requires additional heating by two neutral beam injectors, each
accelerating to 1MV a 40A beam of negative deuterons, delivering to the plasma about …

Ion beam transport: modelling and experimental measurements on a large negative ion source in view of the ITER heating neutral beam

P Veltri, E Sartori, P Agostinetti, D Aprile… - Nuclear …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Neutral beam injectors are among the most important methods of plasma heating in
magnetic confinement fusion devices. The propagation of the negative ions, prior to their …

First negative ion beam measurement by the short-time retractable instrumented kalorimeter experiment (STRIKE)

G Serianni, M De Muri, A Muraro, P Veltri… - Review of Scientific …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The Source for Production of Ion of Deuterium Extracted from Rf plasma (SPIDER) test
facility is under construction in Padova to optimise the operation of the beam source of ITER …