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[Nuclear Fusion] Daily digest — 286 papers, 0 strong connections (2026-04-08)

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Nuclear Fusion · Daily Digest
April 08, 2026
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📄 Top 10 Papers
Effects of Tungsten Radiative Cooling on Impurity, Heat and Momentum Transport in DIII-D Plasmas
Tungsten-induced radiative cooling lowered electron temperature, decreasing Te/Ti ratio and stabilizing trapped-electron-mode (TEM) turbulence; Transition in turbulence regime reduced momentum and ion thermal diffusivities, yielding ion temperature peaking and factor-of-two increase in toroidal rotation
█████████ 0.9 plasma-wall
Soft MPCritic: Amortized Model Predictive Value Iteration
Soft MPCritic enables effective learning through robust, short-horizon planning on complex control tasks; Amortized warm-start strategy preserves solution quality while making the framework computationally practical
██████████ 0.8 plasma-disruption
Efficient and Principled Scientific Discovery through Bayesian Optimization: A Tutorial
Bayesian Optimization formalizes and automates the traditional hypothesize-experiment-refine cycle in scientific discovery; BO eliminates guesswork and manual trial-and-error through probability-driven experiment selection
██████████ 0.6 first-wall-materials
Evolution of SPI-induced disruptions in ASDEX Upgrade
SPI-induced disruptions follow a characteristic chain of events: first light, main fragment arrival, plasma movement event, MARFE, thermal quench/plasma current spike, current quench, and vertical displacement event phase; Disruption evolution is a continuous process with changing disruption time scales and plasma current time trace shape during current quench, transitioning from convex (poorly mitigated) to concave (well mitigated/radiation dominated)
██████████ 1.0 plasma-disruption
The FreeGSNKE Pulse Design Tool (FPDT): a computational framework for evolutive plasma scenario and control design
The FPDT enables in silico testing and predictive design of tokamak plasma scenarios and control strategies; The framework couples FreeGSNKE evolutive equilibrium solver with a virtual Plasma Control System containing modular controllers
██████████ 0.7 long-confinement
Finite Ion Temperature Effects on the Merging of Current-Carrying ELM Filaments in the edge region of a tokamak
Increasing ion temperature substantially alters filament propagation and interaction, resulting in delayed filament merging despite increased total kinetic energy; Finite ion temperature generates asymmetric potential structures, strong poloidal flows, and persistent rotational motion
█████████ 0.9 elm-control
Lithium Droplet Transport in Tokamak Edge Plasmas
Validation against analytical drag-gravity solutions and independent RK45 evaporation integration demonstrates relative errors below 0.00001 for droplet radii of 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5 mm; Outer-divertor droplets predominantly redeposit locally, whereas inner-divertor droplets reach the low-field-side wall
██████████ 0.8 plasma-wall
Hydrogen Inventory Simulations for PFCs (HISP)
DT operation resulted in approximately 35g of tritium inventory in first wall and divertor components after 10 days of DT pulses; Almost 80% of total tritium inventory resided in co-deposited boron layers in the divertor
█████████ 0.9 plasma-wall
How nonlinear spectral back transfer limits the temporal coherency of zonal modes?
Nonlinear spectral back-transfer of free energy from zonal modes to turbulence sets the fundamental limit on temporal coherency of shearing fields; Back-transfer is highly intermittent and occurs in bursts that co-exist with zonal flow generation process
█████████ 0.9 turbulence-modeling
Simulations of internal kink modes and sawtooth crashes for SPARC baseline-like scenarios using the M3D-C1 code
Linear simulations identify a dominant internal kink mode at the q=1 surface with toroidal mode number n=1; Both current and pressure profiles strongly affect kink instability in the baseline case
██████████ 0.8 plasma-disruption
🔬 Roadblock Activity
Roadblock Papers Status Signal
Turbulence Modeling 55 Active
Plasma Disruption 29 Active
Elm Control 12 Active
Plasma Wall 11 Active
Divertor Thermal 10 Active
Long Confinement 7 Open
First Wall Materials 7 Open
Tritium Breeding 6 Open
Hts Magnets 3 Open
Q Engineering 1 Low
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