The Institute of Atomic Physics

Institute of Atomic Physics
Fusion Research Unit of the EURATOM/MEdC Association

2009 Annual Report of the
EURATOM-MEdC Association

CONTENTS

COVER
OVERVIEW AND MAIN RESULTS	3
Physics of the Tokamak plasma
Interpretation and control of helical perturbations in tokamaks	12
Stable organized motion, coherent structures and turbulence in tokamak plasmas	18
The anomalous transport in plasmas	25
Atomic data for open d -shell elements	41
Extending the ITM web portal	50
Understanding the exb drift nonlinear effects on transport and structure generation in turbulent tokamak plasmas	54
Sheath properties and related phenomena of the plasma wall interaction in magnetised plasma. Application to ITER	60
Theoretical modeling of the rwm feedback control considering neoclassical toroidal viscosity and error field penetration	71
Plasma -Wall Interaction
Active IR thermography by pulsed photo-thermal method	83
Study of the influence of the geometry of castellation and the in-side deposited material (carbon films, mix of carbon films with metallic impurities) on the efficiency of cleaning by a plasma torch	88
Study of the ternary system formation Be-C-W using thermionic vacuum arc method; influence of oxygen on the process	96
Compound formation in binary mixing of Be, C and W	111
Material Deposition and Composition of Walls. EFDA Task Agreement Code: WP08-TGS-01-04; (CfP WP 08 09-PC Topical Groups 13 June 2008) (MEdC Contribution)	123
Tungsten erosion in the JET divertor EFDA Task Agreement Code: JW8-FTJET (MEdC Contribution)	127
Qualification of the x-ray micro-beam absorption/fluorescence method for erosion analysis	131
X-ray micro-tomography studies on graphite and CFC samples for porosity network characterization - WP09-PWI-04	138
Participation to the JET experimental program
Tritium depth profile measurements of JET divertor tiles by AMS	144
Profile reconstruction techniques for the JET neutron and gamma-ray cameras	148
Tokamak neutron diagnostics based on the super-heated fluid detector (shfd)	160
Participation to the JET Enhancement Program
Manufacturing and testing of W-coated CFC tiles for installation in JET for the ITER-like Wall project [EFDA Task Agreement Code: JW6-TAEP2-ILC-05]	167
Production of Beryllium Coatings for Inconel Cladding and Beryllium tile Markers for the ITER-like Wall project	172
Upgrade of the JET KN3 gamma-ray cameras diagnostics	178
Tandem Collimators System (Tandem Collimators for the Tangential Gamma Ray Spectrometer - KM6T-TC)	188
Gamma Ray Spectroscopy	203
PUBLICATIONS	209
CONTACT INFORMATION	210
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