Plasma-surface interactions in TFTR D-T experiments
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Plasma Physics Lab.; and others
TFTR has begun its campaign to study deuterium-tritium fusion under reactor-like conditions. Variable amounts of deuterium and tritium neutral beam power have been used to maximize fusion power, study alpha heating, investigate alpha particle confinement, and search for alpha driven plasma instabilities. Additional areas of study include energy and particle transport and confinement, ICRF heating schemes for DT plasmas, tritium retention, and fusion in high {beta}{sub p} plasmas. The majority of this work is done in the TFTR supershot confinement regime. To obtain supershots, extensive limiter conditioning using helium fueled ohmic discharges and lithium pellet injection into ohmic and neutral beam heated plasmas is performed, resulting in a low recycling limiter. The relationship between recycling and core plasma confinement has been studied by using helium, deuterium and high-Z gas puffs to simulate high recycling limiter conditions. These studies show that confinement in TFTR supershots is very sensitive to the influx of neutral particles at the plasma edge.
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03073
- OSTI ID:
- 34440
- Report Number(s):
- PPPL-3068; CONF-940580-25; ON: DE95009406; TRN: 95:009747
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 11. international conference on plasma surface interactions in controlled fusion devices, Mito (Japan), 23-27 May 1994; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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