Results from D-T experiments on TFTR and implications for achieving an ignited plasma
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.
- Fusion Physics and Technology, Torrance, CA (United States); and others
Progress in the performance of tokamak devices has enable not only the production of significant bursts of fusion energy from deuterium-tritium plasmas in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) and the Joint European Torus (JET) but, more importantly, the initial study of the physics of burning magnetically confined plasmas. As a result of the worldwide research on tokamaks, the scientific and technical issues for achieving an ignited plasma are better understood and the remaining questions more clearly defined. The principal research topics which have been studied on TFTR are transport, magnetohydrodynamic stability, and energetic particle confinement. The integration of separate solutions to problems in each of these research areas has also been of major interest. Although significant advances, such as the reduction of turbulent transport by means of internal transport barriers, identification of the theoretically predicted bootstrap current, and the study of the confinement of energetic fusion alpha-particles have been made, interesting and important scientific and technical issues remain. In this paper, the implications for the TFTR experiments for overcoming these remaining issues will be discussed.
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Univ., Princeton Plasma Physics Lab., NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03073
- OSTI ID:
- 304159
- Report Number(s):
- PPPL-CFP-3928; CONF-980783-; ON: DE98057777; TRN: 99:002107
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: The approach to an ignited plasma, London (United Kingdom), 15-16 Jul 1998; Other Information: PBD: [1998]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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