Advances in the physics basis for the European DEMO design

R. Wenninger (1, 2) , F. Arbeiter (3) , J. Aubert (4) , L. Aho-Mantila (5) , R. Albanese (6) , R. Ambrosino (7) , C. Angioni (2) , J.-F. Artaud (8) , M. Bernert (2) , E. Fable (2) , A. Fasoli (9) , G. Federici (1) , J. Garcia (10, 8) , G. Giruzzi (11) , F. Jenko (2) , P. Maget (11) , M. Mattei (12) , F. Maviglia (1, 6) , E. Poli (2) , G. Ramogida (13) , C. Reux (10) , M. Schneider (10) , B. Sieglin (2) , F. Villone (14) , M. Wischmeier (2) , H. Zohm (2)

1 EUROfusion
2 IPP - Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik [Garching]
3 KIT - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
4 LTA - Laboratoire Technologie d'Assemblage
5 VTT - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
6 University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II
7 PARTHENOPE - Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope” = University of Naples
8 CEA-DES (ex-DEN) - CEA-Direction des Energies (ex-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire)
9 CRPP - Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas
10 IRFM - Institut de Recherche sur la Fusion par confinement Magnétique
11 CEA/DSM/DRFC - Association EURATOM-CEA
12 IGMM - Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier
13 ENEA - Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development [Frascati]
14 UNICAS - Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale

In the European fusion roadmap, ITER is followed by a demonstration fusion power reactor (DEMO), for which a conceptual design is under development. This paper reports the first results of a coherent effort to develop the relevant physics knowledge for that (DEMO Physics Basis), carried out by European experts. The program currently includes investigations in the areas of scenario modeling, transport, MHD, heating & current drive, fast particles, plasma wall interaction and disruptions.

Domaines: Physique Nucléaire Théorique [nucl-th]; Physique Nucléaire Expérimentale [nucl-ex]; Planète et Univers [physics]

R. Wenninger, F. Arbeiter, J. Aubert, L. Aho-Mantila, R. Albanese, et al.. Advances in the physics basis for the European DEMO design. Nuclear Fusion, 2015, 55 (6), pp.063003. ⟨10.1088/0029-5515/55/6/063003⟩. ⟨hal-02447501⟩