Tim Driessen - Internship at ITER
The project
From February to May 2022, I spent my days working at ITER Organization for my Master’s internship project. Here I was supervised by Javier Artola, an incredibly knowledgeable and helpful person who made me feel right at home. The goal of my project was to simulate mitigated major disruptions in 2D using the non‐linear MHD code JOREK. Major disruptions are events that consist of rapid loss of plasma equilibrium and confinement. This results in rapid loss of the thermal energy and plasma current, effects that could lead to damage to components surrounding the plasma.