Description of issue / requirement to address
At present, PROCESS has no models for runaway electron generation.
A good 0D fluid model paper was just recently released;
B. Zaar, I. Pusztai, I. Ekmark, and T. Fülöp, “An analytical criterion for significant runaway electron generation in activated tokamaks,” Journal of Plasma Physics, vol. 92, no. 2, p. E46, 2026. doi:10.1017/S0022377826101470
Proposed solution
Description of issue / requirement to address
At present,
PROCESShas no models for runaway electron generation.A good 0D fluid model paper was just recently released;
B. Zaar, I. Pusztai, I. Ekmark, and T. Fülöp, “An analytical criterion for significant runaway electron generation in activated tokamaks,” Journal of Plasma Physics, vol. 92, no. 2, p. E46, 2026. doi:10.1017/S0022377826101470
Proposed solution