Tokamak operation at low q and scaling toward a fusion machine

2012/06/14 by R. Paccagnella, Paccagnella, R.
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Magnetic confinement fusion research #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph) #Superconducting Materials and Applications

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1206.3083

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Abstract

Operation of a tokamak with q edge around 2 is discussed in this paper. It is shown that an L mode operation at a relatively high toroidal magnetic field can produce confinement conditions similar to ITER-FEAT.

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