EXPERIMENTS ON TFTR SUPERSHOT PLASMAS

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作者
STRACHAN, JD
BELL, M
JANOS, A
KAYE, S
KILPATRICK, S
MANOS, D
MANSFIELD, D
MUELLER, D
OWENS, K
PITCHER, CS
SNIPES, J
TIMBERLAKE, J
机构
[1] CANADIAN FUS FUELS TECHNOL PROJECT,TORONTO,ON,CANADA
[2] MIT,CTR PLASMA FUS,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02139
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10.1016/S0022-3115(06)80008-5
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T [工业技术];
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Improvements to the TFTR limiter have extended the threshold for carbon blooms (an uncontrolled massive influx of carbon) to greater than 32 MW for 1 s so that blooms seldom occur in present TFTR supershot experiments. As a result of the progression from strong blooms to modest blooms to no blooms, improvements in confinement could be correlated with the occurrence of a carbon bloom in the plasma which immediately preceded the supershot. It is speculated that the carbon influx during a carbon bloom results in a limiter surface which has a slightly reduced self-sputtering yield for the subsequent discharge. The influence on the supershot plasma seems similar to phenomena obtained by conditioning with lithium pellets.
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