Recent progress in shattered pellet injection technology in support of the ITER disruption mitigation system

TE Gebhart, LR Baylor, MN Ericson, SJ Meitner… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Design and performance of shattered pellet injection systems for JET and KSTAR disruption mitigation research in support of ITER

LR Baylor, SJ Meitner, TE Gebhart… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

MHD modeling of shattered pellet injection in JET

J McClenaghan, BC Lyons, CC Kim, C Akcay… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Nonlinear 3D MHD simulations of shattered-pellet injection (SPI) in JET show prototypical
SPI-driven disruptions using the M3D-C1 and NIMROD extended-MHD codes. Initially …

Disruption runaway electron generation and mitigation in the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP)

A Fil, L Henden, S Newton, M Hoppe… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Generation of Runaway Electrons (REs) during plasma disruptions is of great
concern for ITER and future reactors based on the tokamak concept. Unmitigated RE …

Disruption thermal load mitigation with shattered pellet injection on the Joint European Torus (JET)

UA Sheikh, D Shiraki, R Sweeney, P Carvalho… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Disruption mitigation remains a critical, unresolved challenge for ITER. To aid in addressing
this challenge, a shattered pellet injection (SPI) system was installed on JET and …

Collisional-radiative simulation of impurity assimilation, radiative collapse and MHD dynamics after ITER shattered pellet injection

D Hu, E Nardon, FJ Artola, M Lehnen, D Bonfiglio… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent studies suggest significant time delay between the Shattered Pellet Injection (SPI)
fragment arrival and the temperature radiative collapse could exist in ITER, depending on …

3D radiated power analysis of JET SPI discharges using the Emis3D forward modeling tool

B Stein-Lubrano, R Sweeney, D Bonfiglio… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Precise values for radiated energy in tokamak disruption experiments are needed to validate
disruption mitigation techniques for burning plasma tokamaks like ITER and SPARC. Control …

Plasmoid drift and first wall heat deposition during ITER H-mode dual-SPIs in JOREK simulations

D Hu, J Artola, E Nardon, M Lehnen, M Kong… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The heat flux mitigation during the Thermal Quench (TQ) by the Shattered Pellet Injection
(SPI) is one of the major elements of disruption mitigation strategy for ITER. It's efficiency …

Design of a shattered pellet injector and preliminary bench tests of Ne pellet formation for EAST disruption mitigation

JS Yuan, GZ Zuo, SB Zhao, L Li, HD Zhuang… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Shattered pellet injection (SPI) technology has been demonstrated as a novel effective
method for disruption mitigation in tokamaks. To further verify the superiority and reliability of …

Experimental pellet shatter thresholds and analysis of shatter tube ejecta for disruption mitigation cryogenic pellets

TE Gebhart, LR Baylor… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mitigating disruptions is essential for the longevity of future large tokamak experimental
devices and reactors. Currently, shattered pellet injection (SPI) technique is the most …