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Title: Progress toward steady-state tokamak operation exploiting the high bootstrap current fraction regime

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [1];  [3]; ORCiD logo [2];  [4];  [2]; ORCiD logo [2];  [5];  [1];  [5]; ORCiD logo [2];  [6];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of Plasma Physics
  2. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
  3. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  4. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Engineering Physics
  5. Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
  6. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Center for Energy Research
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Program of China
OSTI Identifier:
1371748
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1258328; OSTI ID: 1769157
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-752087
Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
Grant/Contract Number:  
FC02-04ER54698; AC52-07NA27344; FG02-08ER54999; AC02-09CH11466; FG02-07ER54917; FG02-06ER54871
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physics of Plasmas
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Internal transport barrier; Tokamaks; Torque; Turbulent transport processes; Toroidal plasma confinement

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Ren, Q. L., Garofalo, A. M., Gong, X. Z., Holcomb, C. T., Lao, L. L., McKee, G. R., Meneghini, O., Staebler, G. M., Grierson, B. A., Qian, J. P., Solomon, W. M., Turnbull, A. D., Holland, C., Guo, W. F., Ding, S. Y., Pan, C. K., Xu, G. S., and Wan, B. N. Progress toward steady-state tokamak operation exploiting the high bootstrap current fraction regime. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4948724.
Ren, Q. L., Garofalo, A. M., Gong, X. Z., Holcomb, C. T., Lao, L. L., McKee, G. R., Meneghini, O., Staebler, G. M., Grierson, B. A., Qian, J. P., Solomon, W. M., Turnbull, A. D., Holland, C., Guo, W. F., Ding, S. Y., Pan, C. K., Xu, G. S., & Wan, B. N. Progress toward steady-state tokamak operation exploiting the high bootstrap current fraction regime. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4948724
Ren, Q. L., Garofalo, A. M., Gong, X. Z., Holcomb, C. T., Lao, L. L., McKee, G. R., Meneghini, O., Staebler, G. M., Grierson, B. A., Qian, J. P., Solomon, W. M., Turnbull, A. D., Holland, C., Guo, W. F., Ding, S. Y., Pan, C. K., Xu, G. S., and Wan, B. N. Mon . "Progress toward steady-state tokamak operation exploiting the high bootstrap current fraction regime". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4948724. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1371748.
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title = {Progress toward steady-state tokamak operation exploiting the high bootstrap current fraction regime},
author = {Ren, Q. L. and Garofalo, A. M. and Gong, X. Z. and Holcomb, C. T. and Lao, L. L. and McKee, G. R. and Meneghini, O. and Staebler, G. M. and Grierson, B. A. and Qian, J. P. and Solomon, W. M. and Turnbull, A. D. and Holland, C. and Guo, W. F. and Ding, S. Y. and Pan, C. K. and Xu, G. S. and Wan, B. N.},
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doi = {10.1063/1.4948724},
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volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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