Organization: US ITER Project Office
Disruption Mitigation System
The United States is supporting ITER’s disruption mitigation system. Research and development of this technology includes deployment of prototypical shattered pellet injection units on existing tokamaks around the world. The disruption mitigation system limits both electromagnetic impacts and the magnitude of heat and particle flux to plasma facing components. It also suppresses the formation of (or aids in the dissipation of) a runaway electron beam.