ADVANCED TOKAMAK PHYSICS - STATUS AND PROSPECTS

被引:51
作者
GOLDSTON, RJ
BATHA, SH
BULMER, RH
HILL, DN
HYATT, AW
JARDIN, SC
LEVINTON, FM
KAYE, SM
KESSEL, CE
LAZARUS, EA
MANICKAM, FJ
NEILSON, GH
NEVINS, WM
PERKINS, LJ
REWOLDT, G
THOMASSEN, KI
ZARNSTORFF, MC
机构
[1] FUS PHYS & TECHNOL,TORRANCE,CA
[2] LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATL LAB,LIVERMORE,CA
[3] GEN ATOM CO,SAN DIEGO,CA
[4] OAK RIDGE NATL LAB,OAK RIDGE,TN
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D O I
10.1088/0741-3335/36/12B/018
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
Experimental and theoretical results from around the world point to the possibility of high confinement, high-beta, and high-bootstrap-fraction steady-state tokamak operating modes. These modes of operation, if fully developed and extended to steady-state, could lead to much less expensive tokamak demonstration power reactors and to a significantly reduced cost-of-electricity from fusion, as compared to projections based on low-beta(N), pulsed operating modes. Present results have clear implications in the areas of particle control, plasma shaping, and current-profile control. Thus they have strongly influenced the design of the steady-state advanced tokamak TPX([1]), which has the mission to combine the best results from present experiments and extend them to steady-state. These results also have important implications for follow-up tests in ITER([2]), which have the goal of studying advanced-tokamak operation in an ignited plasma, as well as for the eventual configuration of an advanced-tokamak fusion reactor.
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页码:B213 / B227
页数:15
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