Enhanced confinement regimes and control technology in the DIII-D tokamak

Conference · Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993

OSTI ID:10185315

Lohr, J; Burrell, K H ^[1]; Coda, S ^[2]

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1. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
2. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (United States); and others

Advanced tokamak performance has been demonstrated in the DIII-D tokamak in a series of experiments which brought together developments in technology and improved understanding of the physical principles underlying tokamak operation. The achievement of greatly improved confinement coupled with development of new systems for real time plasma control have permitted investigation of the heretofore hidden or poorly controlled variables which together determine global confinement. These experiments, which included work in transport and control of the plasma boundary, point toward development of operationally and economically attractive reactors based on the tokamak. Some of these experiments are described.

• Research Organization: General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-89ER51114; AC05-84OR21400; FG02-91ER54109
• OSTI ID: 10185315
• Report Number(s): GA-A-21342; CONF-930655-1; ON: DE93019004; TRN: 93:022822
• Resource Relation: Conference: International conference on open plasma confinement systems for fusion,Novosibirsk (Russian Federation),14-18 Jun 1993; Other Information: PBD: Jul 1993
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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