Initial confinement studies of ohmically heated plasmas in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor

Technical Report · Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7094213· OSTI ID:7094213

Efthimion, P C; Bell, M; Blanchard, W R; Bretz, N; Cecchi, J L; Coonrod, J; Davis, S; Dylla, H F; Fonck, R; Furth, H P

Initial operation of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) has concentrated upon confinement studies of ohmically heated hydrogen and deuterium plasmas. Total energy confinement times (tau/sub E/) are 0.1 to 0.2 s for a line-average density range (anti n/sub e/) of 1 to 2.5 x 10/sup 19/ m/sup -3/ with electron temperatures of T/sub e/(o) approx. 1.2 to 2.2 keV, ion temperatures of T/sub i/(o) approx. 0.9 to 1.5 keV, and Z/sub eff/ approx. 3. A comparison of PLT, PDX, and TFTR plasma confinement supports a dimension-cubed scaling law.

• Research Organization: Princeton Univ., NJ (USA). Plasma Physics Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03073
• OSTI ID: 7094213
• Report Number(s): PPPL-2078; ON: DE84015155
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
700101* -- Fusion Energy-- Plasma Research-- Confinement
Heating
& Production
CONFINEMENT
DEUTERIUM
ELECTRIC HEATING
ELEMENTS
HEATING
HYDROGEN
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
JOULE HEATING
LIGHT NUCLEI
NONMETALS
NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
PLASMA CONFINEMENT
PLASMA DENSITY
PLASMA HEATING
RESISTANCE HEATING
SCALING LAWS
STABLE ISOTOPES
TFTR REACTORS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
TOKAMAK TYPE REACTORS