FUSION PHYSICS

Plasma-Wall Interactions Studies

Research focuses on hydrogen-wall interactions, the transport of hydrogen isotopes and their retention in fusion relevant materials.

Department of Low and Medium Energy Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute

  • Study of hydrogen atom interaction with materials for fusion:
    1. Hydrogen depth profiling in materials by ion beam methods (NRA, ERDA), where our main field of expertise is to follow processes on surface and under it in-situ and in real time.
    2. Study hydrogen isotope retention in high energy damaged materials (i.e. self-damaged tungsten) – simulation neutron damaging; Recent progress: Study D retention in tungsten simultaneously damaged by high energy W ions and loaded by D.
    3. Studies of hydrogen atom recombination on material surfaces by vibrational spectroscopy of hydrogen molecules and development of specific method for hydrogen vibrational spectroscopy.
    4. Modelling of hydrogen adsorption, desorption and recombination on the surface.

Department of Surface Engineering, Jožef Stefan Institute

    • Removal of deposits by neutral oxygen and nitrogen atoms.
    • Permeation and outgassing measurements of deposited Be, W and mixed Be/W layers.

Department of Thin Films and Surfaces, Jožef Stefan Institue

    • Plasma deposition of H:C metal coatings.

Research, Diagnostics and Modelling of Fusion Relevant Plasma

The research focuses on improvements in modelling, numerical simulations and diagnostics of edge plasmas at conditions relevant for fusion reactors. Our researchers are involved in experimental campaigns at European fusion facilities (JET, ASDEX Upgrade, WEST, TCV).

Reactor Physics Department, Jožef Stefan Institute

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, LECAD Laboratory, University of Ljubljana

    • Advanced visualization tools and integrated tokamak modelling with externally coupled core and edge transport codes.

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana

    • Plasma diagnostics of fusion devices.

Neutron Transport in Fusion Devices

Reactor Physics Department, Jožef Stefan Institute

    • Neutron transport calculation for JET torus.
    • Calculations to support JET neutron yield calibration.