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On the confinement of a tokamak plasma - Daniel Han-Kwan

The goal of this paper is to understand from a mathematical point of view the magnetic confinement of plasmas for fusion. Following Frénod and Sonnendrücker [7] ...

High-field Tokamaks: the fastest & surest path to a fusion energy ...

High-field Tokamaks: the fastest & surest path to a fusion energy power plant | Science On Saturday · Comments2.

China's HL-3 tokamak achieves H-mode operation with 1 MA ...

This regime can improve the performance of the confined plasma by ... high-confinement mode operation with a plasma current of 1 MA for the first.

General Atomics and Tokamak Energy Announce Collaboration ...

GA is developing a range of other technologies for ITER, including high-power microwave transmission line components, real-time plasma control ...

Effect of density changes on tokamak plasma confinement

In most present-day tokamaks, the majority of the heating power comes from sources such as neutral-beam injection (NBI) and other types of auxiliary heating ...

Tokamak fusion density breakthrough reshapes reactor design

DOE scientists have surpassed a long-standing density limit (>1.0) while maintaining excellent confinement (~1.5) in a tokamak device for the ...

Heating and Current Drive - Magnetic Confinement Fusion - Hal-CEA

Current drive is essential in tokamaks, which require the presence of a poloidal magnetic field produced by the toroidal plasma current (Wesson, ...

Particle transport in tokamak plasmas, theory and experiment

... plasma density to the density limit, observed in tokamaks ... If a high collisionality regime is assumed, as described by the Braginskii.

A new regime that “FIRE”s fusion plasmas for long sustained and ...

Various advanced tokamak operation modes such as hybrid mode8,9, high poloidal beta. Page 5. Page 5/21 mode10, and high qmin mode11 are based on ...

Edge tokamak transport in regimes with high collisionality

In the strongly detached regimes, especially in future tokamak reactors, plasma in the divertor and in some special regions like vicinity of highly radiating X ...

Isotope effect in confinement in high density FT-2 tokamak regimes

(2018). Isotope effect in confinement in high density FT-2 tokamak regimes. 1280-1283. Abstract from European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, ...

Ferreting out the truth about fusion: Interview with Bob Rosner

A key question for tokamaks is: Can you reach ignition—sustain a fusion burn—before the plasma disrupts? Generally speaking, tokamaks aren't ...

On the size of tokamak fusion power plants - Journals

Confinement relative to the ITER confinement scaling: it is envisaged that ITER will operate under 'H-mode' plasma conditions, where a transport ...

After ITER: What China and others are doing in fusion. Interview with ...

... high-field tokamak presently under development to demonstrate net fusion plasma energy gain. In addition, Whyte leads the Laboratory for ...

21 Holy Grail Materials Could Unleash Fusion Once and for All

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) will be relying on tungsten as its plasma-facing material, but a new study explores ...

US firm sets record with plasma fusion temperature of '392 million ...

Quantum Kinetics Corporation (QKC) claimed that it successfully triggered plasma fusion temperatures of 392 million degrees Fahrenheit for ...

Nuclear fusion start-up claims milestone with unconventional reactor

Instead of magnets outside the chamber, OpenStar levitates a high-temperature superconducting magnet inside the superheated plasma, which is ...

Introduction to Tokamak Plasma Control - Lehigh University

Creating the conditions for frequent high-speed collisions is a primary objective of controlled nuclear fusion. Assuming that such collisions can be produced in ...

The Quest to Build a Star on Earth - The New York Times

Make your plasma hold onto this heat for long enough, and at high ... tokamak at the University of Sydney in 1980. Underwood Archives/Getty ...

Hyundai delivers final vacuum vessel for world's largest fusion project

As ITER explains, the larger the vacuum chamber volume in a tokamak device, the easier it is to confine plasma and reach a high-energy regime ...