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published by vnaulin on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 11:55
Website: 
National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy
E-mail: 
vona@risoe.dtu.dk
Contact person: 
Volker Naulin
Address: 
Risø DTU Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy Plasma Physics and Technology Programme OPL-128 P.O. Box 49 Frederiksborgvej 399 DK-4000 Roskilde Denmark
General profile: 

Risø DTU contributes to research, development and international exploitation of sustainable energy technologies and strengthens economic development in Denmark.

Risø DTU is one of Europe's leading research laboratories in sustainable energy and is a significant player in nuclear technologies. Risø DTU creates pioneering research results and contributes actively to their exploitation, both in close dialogue with the wider society.

Risø DTU is the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy at the Technical University of Denmark - DTU. Risø DTU carries out scientific and technical-scientific research that can provide Danish society with new opportunities for technological development and takes responsibility for the results to be used.

Our work is based on the idea that knowledge is the key to the development of an innovative and sustainable society capable of facing global competition.

Research profile: 

Fusion research at Risø focusses on three essential areas:

  • Turbulence and transport
    Plasma turbulence has an essential impact on the confinement of plasmas in magnetic fields. Theoretical models are developed and tested on powerful computers. The results are compared with results obtained by using other models and with experiments.
  • Fast ion dynamics measured by collective Thomson scattering (CTS)

    Magnetically confined fusion plasmas contain highly non-thermal populations of fast ions resulting from fusion reactions and plasma heating. The considerable free energy associated with these fast ions must be channelled into heating the bulk plasma, but can also drive waves and turbulence, reducing plasma confinement. We develop and exploit collective Thomson scattering for investigating the dynamics of fast ions in fusion plasmas. Currently we are developing CTS diagnostics together with European and American collaborators for the two tokamaks, TEXTOR and ASDEX Upgrade, both in Germany.

  • Material research

    The impact of neutron radiation on various alloys, to be used in ITER and other future fusion power stations, is under investigation.

    The work is conducted in close collaboration with other European and international research groups.

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