Mitigation of the divertor heat load in DEMO reactor by impurity seeding

Abstract

This paper describes integrated numerical modeling applied to DEMO discharges with tungsten wall in slab geometry, rather than the full X-point geometry of the DEMO design, using the COREDIV code. Calculations are performed for inductive DEMO scenario with Ne, Ar and Ni seeding for different radial diffusion coefficients in the SOL region, and different pinch velocities for impurities in the core. Simulations show only for Ar and Ni, with high enough radial diffusion in the SOL, it is possible to achieve H-mode plasma operation (power to the SOL > L–H transition threshold power) with acceptable level of the power to the target plates. For neon seeding such regime of operation seems not to be possible.