Volume 82

Review of Owner-Operator Requirements for Fusion Energy to Inform and Enable Technology Development and Commercialization

Diana Grandas, Andrew Sowder

Building a Body of Knowledge to Inform a Technology-Agnostic Iterative Safety Assessment Methodology for Fusion Facilities

Steven Krahn, Diana Grandas, Andrew Sowder, Brennan Ferrington, George Flanagan

In-Field Testing of Components for Feedback and Control of the ITER Disruption Mitigation System

Devaaya Latta, Trey Gebhart, Tim Bigelow, Shane Frank, Nance Ericson, Mathias Dibon, Stefan Jachmich, Uron Kruezi

Century: Zap Energy’s 100-kW-Scale Repetitive Sheared-Flow-Stabilized Z-Pinch System with Liquid Metal Cooling

Matthew Thompson, Vidya Nalajala, Brian Kelleher, Steven Brantley, Clemente Parga, Alex Cheung, Matt Aubuchon, Brian Nelson, Micki Acks, Skyler Ashrun, Steven Bagdy, Allan Basile, Brianne Beers, Clyde Joshua Beers, Kenneth Blackwell, Haley Blanck, Felipe Caliari, Hannah Carlson, Michael Christenson, Thomas Connolly, Steven Cortez, Justin Costa-Greger, Christopher Dion, Sean Gagnon, Harpreet Grover, Corwin Hansen, Kaleb Hatfield, Santtu Joni Eemeli Huotilainen, Steve Jurovich, Scott Korlann, Brad Maynard, Santhosh Kumar Muniyal Krishna, Marcus Parry, Wyatt Pauley, Bill Pedler, Tyler Rhodes, David Sanabria Diaz, Whitney Schoenthal, Tim Schwartz, Geoff Staines, James Stuber, Zofia Toth, Nathan Tripp, Bruce Wakefield, Ben Watson, Chen Ying, Cassidy Zehner

Operation of the Pegasus-III Experiment at 0.6 T for Nonsolenoidal Startup Development

M. D. Nornberg, M. W. Bongard, M. T. Borchardt, S. J. Diem, B. A. Kujak-Ford, J. A. Goetz, B. T. Lewicki, J. A. Reusch, C. Rodriguez Sanchez, C. E. Schaefer, A. C. Sontag, J. D. Weberski, G. R. Winz

A Microwave System for Solenoid-Free Startup Studies on Pegasus-III

J. A. Goetz, M. W. Bongard, S. J. Diem, J. K. Peery

Surrogate Model of Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive in a Compact Advanced Tokamak

Andrew M. Irvin, Ehab Hassan, Sebastian de Pascuale, Mark Cianciosa, Rhea L. Barnett, Livia Casali

Design and Engineering of LUPIN: A Test-Bed Radio-Frequency Ion Source for Enhanced Neutral Beam Injection on DIII-D

Arthur Mazzeo, Florian M. Laggner, Keanu J. Ammons, Sazzad Hossain, Evan Kallenberg, Liam King, Kirtan Davda, Miral Shah, Steven C. Shannon, Amanda M. Lietz, Brendan Crowley, John T. Scoville

Design and Study of Inductively Coupled Plasma Chamber Components Using the SupRISE Test Device at DIII-D

Evan Kallenberg, Brendan Crowley, John T. Scoville, Florian M. Laggner, Arthur Mazzeo, Keanu J. Ammons, Md. Sazzad Hossain, Liam King, Amanda M. Lietz, Steven C. Shannon

Feasibility Study on Heat Pipes for Radio Frequency Antennas

Minuk Jung, Amy Watterson, Gregory M. Wallace

Chemical and Chemical-Mechanical Polishing of Surface Roughness on L-PBF/GRCop-42 Cu-Cr-Nb Additive Manufactured 10-GHz RF Structures

A. H. Seltzman, S. J. Wukitch

Design and Analysis of the Open-Surface Slow Li Flow Divertor and Comparison to the Fast Li Flow Divertor

Yuchen Jiang, Sunday Aduloju, Sergey Smolentsev

Thermal-Fluid and Thermal-Structural Response of the T-Tube Modular Divertor to Spatiotemporally Varying Heat Loads

Michael L. Lanahan, Said I. Abdel-Khalik, Minami Yoda

Toward Verification of RANS Simulations of the T-Tube Modular Divertor Using Large Eddy Simulations of Impinging Turbulent Plane Jets

Michael L. Lanahan, Said I. Abdel-Khalik, Minami Yoda

Heat Removal Performance of a Helium Gas Flow in Unidirectional Porous Copper Pipes with Spatially Gradating Pore Structure for Nuclear Fusion Divertors

Ryohei Kubota, Kohei Yuki, Kazuhisa Yuki, Shigeru Tanaka, Kazuyuki Hokamoto

Acoustic State Sensing of Subcooled Boiling Heat Transfer on a CuCrZr Surface Using a Deep Neural Network for Divertor Application

Yoshitaka Ueki, Yuta Aoki, Naoya Maeda, Noriyuki Unno, Kazuhisa Yuki, Yohji Seki, Shin-ichi Satake

CFD Simulations of Molten Salts Within Plasma-Facing Components with Twisted Tape Inserts Under One-Sided–Heated Conditions

Sierra A. Tutwiler, Dillon R. Shaver, Lane B. Carasik

Design and Implementation of Surface Eroding Thermocouples for Stage-One Modular Divertor Integration at the DIII-D Tokamak

Jun Ren, Tyler Elsey, Christopher Murphy, Bingzhe Zhao, Morgan Shafer, Robert Wilcox, Suk-Ho Hong, Ryan Hood, Cedric Tsui, David Donovan

Surface Heat Load Analysis Due to Plasma Thermal Radiation on Equatorial Port 09

Han Zhang, Nathan Arnwine, Jiawen Wang

MHD Analysis of Dual-Coolant Lead-Lithium Blanket for Spherical Tokamak Advanced Reactor

Deepa Gupta, Arthur Brooks, Thomas Brown, Andrei Khodak, Brian Linn, Jonathan Menard

Investigation of Anchor Link Magnetohydrodynamic Effects in the Toroidally Symmetric Lead-Lithium (TSLL) Blanket Concept

Yuqiao (Joy) Fan, Sergey Smolentsev

Design Overview of a High-Pressure Helium Flow Visualization Apparatus for Blanket Cooling Studies

Cody S. Wiggins, Yuqiao Fan, Chris Crawford, Chase Joslin

Shutdown Dose Rate Analysis of Various Blanket Concepts

Nikolas G. Nelson, Son N. Quang, Nicholas R. Brown, G. Ivan Maldonado

Preconceptual Neutronics and Shielding Studies of a Beam-Driven Tokamak Volumetric Neutron Source

Dieter Leichtle, Roman Afanasenko, Christian Bachmann, Aljaz Cufar, Gianfranco Federici, Thomas Franke, Bor Kos, Ivo Moscato, Jin Hun Park, Pavel Pereslavtsev, Alex Valentine

Physics-Informed Plasma Profile Input for OpenMC Fusion Neutronics

Benjamin T. Taczak, Livia Casali, Son Quang, G. Ivan Maldonado, Kuan Lee

Electromagnetic Analysis of ITER Electron Cyclotron Emission Components and Support Structures for the Preliminary Design Review

Jiarong Fang, Orlando Pastor, Jagrut Bhavsar, Peter Titus

Development, Verification, and Validation of an OpenFOAM-Based Solver for Modeling Inertial Fusion Energy Chambers

Nahom Habtemariam, Eric Cervi, Carlo Fiorina, Susana Reyes

Conceptual Design of UNITY-2, the Fuel Cycle Test Facility for Fusion Pilot Plants

Colin Baus, Hugh Boniface, Ian Castillo, Amir Dashliborun, Christian Day, Takashi Ino, Minoru Jimma, Daiki Kikuchi, Mitch King, Satoshi Konishi, Yoshifumi Kume, Suneui Lee, Nobuo Maki, Yoshinao Matsunaga, John McGrady, Kyosuke Namba, Louis Neumann, Yuhei Nozoe, Richard Pearson, Donald Ryland, Jonas Schwenzer, Stephen Strickwerda, Sam Suppiah, Tim Teichmann, Bibake Uppal, Todd Whitehorne, Tomoya Yokoi

Cataloging Legacy Data from the Tritium Systems Test Assembly Program

Vicky Lizardi-Lobb, Claire L. Bullock, Victoria Hypes-Mayfield, Joseph H. Dumont

High Compression in Palladium Alloy Metal Foil Pumps

Chao Li, Thomas F. Fuerst, J. Douglas Way, Colin A. Wolden

Continued Testing and Modeling of the AirSquared All-Metal Tritium Scroll Pump

Victoria Hypes-Mayfield, Lyra Troy, David Dogruel, William Kubic, Joseph H. Dumont

Sticking Coefficients of Fusion Reactor Impurities from Molecular Dynamics Simulations for the Design of Cryopumps

Nirajan Adhikari, Trey E. Gebhart, Larry R. Baylor

Deuterium Extraction from Helium with a Vanadium Vacuum Permeator: Commissioning of the Tritium Extraction eXperiment (TEX)

Thomas F. Fuerst, Brooke L. Davenport, Erik A. Hiserodt, Anthony G. Bowers, Tucker G. D. Warden, Hanns A. Gielt, Adriaan A. Riet, Matthew D. Eklund, L. Shayne Loftus, Masashi Shimada, Chase N. Taylor

Separation of Hydrogen Using Pd/Ag Membranes: Experimental and Modeling Results with Potential Application to Direct Internal Recycle

Victoria Hypes-Mayfield, Lyra Troy, David Dogruel, William Kubic, Joseph H. Dumont

Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of the Molten Salt Tritium Transport Experiment Test Section

Anthony G. Bowers, Jr., Subash L. Sharma, Thomas F. Fuerst

High-Fidelity CFD Modeling of Cryogenic Hydrogen Isotope Extrusion for Fusion Reactor Pellet Fueling

Yuqiao (Joy) Fan, Larry R. Baylor, Steven J. Meitner

Study of Diffusion Expansion of Damaged Layer in Nd₂Zr₂O₇ Ceramics Under High-Temperature Irradiation

Inesh Kenzhina, Mussa Kabiyev, Artem Kozlovskiy, Meiram Begentayev, Aktolkyn Tolenova, Petr Blynskiy

Mitigated Dissimilar Mass Transfer with Aluminized RAFM Steels in Flowing PbLi at 650°C

Claude de Lamater-Brotherton, Marie Romedenne, Ying Zhang, Bruce A. Pint

The Untold Story of Building the First Megaton Thermonuclear Fusion Device: The Simple Element and IVY Mike

Jonathan E. Morgan

Jetter and Post Nuclear Fusion Cycles: New Fire to an Old Idea

Lorenzo Fortunato, Andres Felipe Lopez Loaiza, Giulio Albertin, Enrico Fragiacomo

Gyrotrons for Fusion Power Plants

Robert Lawrence Ives, Michael Read, Jeffrey Neilson, Thuc Bui, David Marsden, Thuy Le, Hien Tran

Energy Spectrum Assessment of NaI(Tl), NE113, and NE213 Scintillators in Very Low-Energy Fusion Studies

R. Dubey, Gokuldas H., K. Czerski, M. Kaczmarski, A. Kowalska, N. Targosz-Ślęczka, S. Thulichery, M. Valat

Techno-Economic Analysis of Gas-Liquid Contactors for Tritium Extraction from Lead-Lithium

Anthony G. Bowers Jr., Subash L. Sharma, Chase N. Taylor, Thomas F. Fuerst

Design Study of a Fusion Liquid Immersion Blanket Heat Exhaust/Transport System Using SAM

Trevor Franklin, Ryan P. McGuire, Sierra Tutwiler, A. M. Coxe, Lane B. Carasik

Paschen Discharge Experimental Platform Based on Visible Light Imaging

Shuliang Ma, Jianhua Yang, Xiaofeng Han, Liang Guo, Yanlan Hu, Huajun Liu, Hao Wu, Yuanyuan Ma, Jichao Wang

Atomic Beam Probe Synthetic Diagnostic in the COMPASS Tokamak and Its Application in Fusion Plasmas

Mátyás Aradi, Dániel I. Réfy, Shimpei Futatani, Ors Asztalos, Miklós Berta, Pavel Háček, Jaroslav Krbec, Sándor Zoletnik, Gergo I. Pokol

Consideration of Plasma Scattering and Electromagnetic Field Deflection in Proton Radiography: A New Method for Calculating the Path Integrals Under Scattering Conditions

Zhikun Luo, Zhenyuan Wang, Yangyang Xiao, Xiaofang Wang

One-Sided Neutron Shield for Dense Plasma Focus in Hybrid Fusion-Fission Reactors

Hosein Talebitadi

Junction Temperature Balancing Strategy for Parallel Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors Based on Thermal Resistance and Gate Resistance Compensation

Haihong Huang, Lan Peng, Haixin Wang, Xu Wu

Optimization of Performance Prediction Model for Radio Frequency–Based Negative Ion Source

Yu Gu, Chundong Hu, Yuanzhe Zhao, Yang Li, Qinglong Cui

Electromagnetic Response of RFX-mod2 Passive Conducting Structures to Fast Termination of High-Current RFP Plasma

Domenico Abate, Giuseppe Marchiori, Matteo Bonotto, Roberto Cavazzana

Characterization and Integrity Assessment of Friction-Welded Joints Between ETP-Cu and SS304L for Fusion Applications

Tapan Patel, Hardik D. Vyas, Mukti Rajan Jana, Paritosh Chaudhuri, Kedar S. Bhope, Mayur Mehta, Prakash K. Mokaria, Samir S. Khirwadkar, Sunil Belsare, Ujjwal K. Baruah

Overview of Indian Domestic Agency Neutronics Activities

Bhoomi S. Gajjar, Anil Tyagi, Sanjeev Varshney, Siddharth Kumar, Saroj Jha, Hitesh Kumar B. Pandya, P. V. Subhash

Compact Fusion Pilot Plant: Drivers for Nuclear Analysis Requirements

P. N. Maya, S. P. Deshpande, P. Prajapati, A. K. Tyagi, H. L. Swami, C. Danani, P. Chaudhuri, M. Ghate, V. Mehta, P. K. Sharma

Shutdown Dose Rate Evaluation Around the High-Power Beam Dump for 5-MeV and 9-MeV Deuteron Beam Operations in the Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPAc)

Kohki Kumagai, Keitaro Kondo, Satoshi Sato, Saerom Kwon, Kai Masuda

Synchronization of the OpenMC and MCNP Models for ITER Neutronics

Egor S. Afanasenko, Dmitri V. Portnov, Julia G. Vysokikh, Yuri A. Kashchuk

Applicability Analysis of FLUKA for SDDR with FNG-ITER Benchmark

Xilong Tong, Xiaokang Zhang, Jia Li, Shanliang Zheng

Application and Coupling of NEUTRO, a Deterministic Neutron Transport Solver for Fusion Applications in the Alya Multiphysics Environment

Ezequiel Goldberg, Juan Pablo Catalan, Francisco Ogando, Guillaume Houzeaux, Mervi J. Mantsinen, Alejandro Soba

FNG HCPB Tritium Breeder Module Mock-Up Benchmarking of OpenMC and Uncertainty Quantification

Felipe S. Novais, Ethan E. Peterson

Validity Examination of Benchmark Experiment for Large-Angle Scattering Cross Section with Two Shadow Bars Using 14-MeV Neutrons

Kazuki Fukui, Yamato Fujii, Sota Araki, Rio Miyazawa, Indah Rosidah Maemunah, Ryohei Takehara, Shingo Tamaki, Sachie Kusaka, Fuminobu Sato, Isao Murata

A Benchmark Experiment for ¹⁸⁰Hf(n, n')^180mHf Activation Reaction Cross Section with ²⁵²Cf Neutron Source

Sota Araki, Indah Rosidah Maemunah, Rio Miyazawa, Yamato Fujii, Nuri Trianti, Shingo Tamaki, Isao Murata

Neutronics Analysis of ClLiF: An Alternative Molten-Salt Tritium Breeder

Collin S. Dunn, Bamidele Ebiwonjumi, Stefano Segantin, Kevin B. Woller, Weiyue Zhou, Ethan E. Peterson

Design and Performance of Metal Hydride Composite Neutron Shields for Compact, High-Power Fusion Reactors

Jack W. Fletcher, Ethan E. Peterson, Jason R. Trelewicz, Lance L. Snead

Neutronics and Activation Analysis of Aluminized RAFM Steel

Marina Rizk, Nicholas R. Brown, G. Ivan Maldonado

High-Rate Sputter Deposition of Ultrathick Boron Carbide Coatings on Rolling Spherical Substrates

J. B. Merlo, J. B. Forien, K. Kawasaki, S. Gonzalez, S. J. Shin, L. R. Sohngen, G. V. Taylor, Z. R. Rodriguez, S. O. Kucheyev

Grid-Assisted Direct-Current Magnetron Sputtering of Titanium: Plasma Discharge Diagnostics

L. R. Sohngen, G. V. Taylor, A. A. Baker, M. S. Wong, S. O. Kucheyev

Plasma Focused Ion Beam Milling of High-Aspect-Ratio Holes in Diamond

Swanee J. Shin, Jean-Baptiste Forien, Daniel C. Goodelman, Leonardus B. Bayu Aji, Eunjeong Kim, Sergei O. Kucheyev

High-Power Impulse Magnetron Sputter Deposition of Ultrathick Amorphous Carbon

A. M. Engwall-Holmes, L. B. Bayu Aji, S. J. Shin, J. B. Merlo, J. H. Bae, S. O. Kucheyev

Optimization of VISAR Mirrors for NIF Targets

Neal Bhandarkar, Anastacia M. Manuel, Peter Celliers, Laura Robin Benedetti, Kalpani Werellapatha, Martin Gorman, Cara Vennari, Nathan E. Palmer, Yong-Jae Kim, John Chesser, Rebeca Rangel, Darrold Ponce, Joshua Ponce, Jean Jensen

Recent Progress in the Characterization of EOS Targets for LMJ Experiments

Olivier Raphaël, Sandrine Maublanc, Sonia Papret, Marc-Aurèle Lagache

PAMS Mandrel Synthesis Improvements

Sarah Goujard, Aurélie Zentz, Christelle Pontier, Véronique Durand, Pauline Valois

Advancing High-Repetition-Rate Targeting: Implementation and Performance of FRODO at GALADRIEL

Gilbert W. Collins IV, Mike Jaris, Dylan Dahlke, Mi Do, Shreyas Kotian, Nika Sabouri, Alex Haid, Christopher McGuffey, Andrew Forsman, Mario J.-E. Manuel

Printed Targets with Micron-Scale Feature Patterns for the Study of Ablator Defects on OMEGA

Sarah M. Fess, Mark Bonino, Dayna Wasilewski, Neil Redden, Lance Ulrich, David Harding, Rahul Shah, Timothy Collins, Sean Regan

Quantification of Changes in Fill Tube Curvature During Target Assembly

Xavier Lepro, Daniel Malone, Chantel Aracne-Ruddle, Alexander Schwartz, Marcus Monticelli, Salmaan Baxamusa, Suhas Bhandarkar

Optimizing the Smoothness and Thickness Uniformity of Thin-Film Parylene-N Vapor-Deposited Coatings for Inertial Confinement Fusion Experiments

Ian P. Knudsen, David R. Harding

Combinatorial Deposition of Ultrathick Ta-W-Au-Bi High-Entropy Alloys for Next-Generation Hohlraums by Direct-Current Magnetron Sputtering

D. C. Goodelman, A. M. Engwall-Holmes, G. V. Taylor, B. J. Bocklund, D. J. Strozzi, S. J. Shin, E. Kim, N. Vishnoi, S. O. Kucheyev, L. B. Bayu Aji

Fabrication of GA-CH Aerogel Capsules Through Solution Chemistry for Inertial Confinement Fusion

Shahin Alaei, Fred Elsner, Jarrod Williams, Neil Alexander, Nina Langley, Tina Reuter, Eduardo Marin, Wendi Sweet

High-Power Impulse Magnetron Sputter Deposition of Boron Carbide with Full-Face Erosion Magnetron and Mixed Ar-Ne Plasma

G. V. Taylor, S. Graiser, L. B. Bayu Aji, S. J. Shin, D. C. Goodelman, Xavier Lepro, S. O. Kucheyev

Vibration-Damping Properties of 3D-Printed Auxetic Structures

Ming Wang, David R. Harding

Cr-Be Pushered Single Shell (PSS) Capsule Development

Hongwei Xu, Haibo Huang, Mark Ratledge, Casey Kong, Keven Sequoia, Steve MacLaren, Eduard Dewald, Corie Horwood, Robert Tipton, Darwin Ho

Fully Additively Manufactured Wetted Foam Capsules for Inertial Confinement Fusion

Widianto P. Moestopo, Jean-Baptiste Forien, James D. Sater, Timothy R. Prisk, Travis M. Briggs, G. Elijah Kemp, Derek A. Mariscal, Montu Sharma, Claudia Shuldberg, Jay Crippen, Stephan A. MacLaren, Xiaoxing Xia, James S. Oakdale