Published May 1997 | Version v1
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High-field compact divertor tokamak research on Alcator C-Mod

  • 1. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (United States). Plasma Fusion Center
  • 2. Associazione Euratom-ENEA sulla Fusione, Frascati (Italy)

Description

Alcator C-Mod has demonstrated H-mode confinement that exceeds recent empirical H-mode scalings by a factor of 1.5. A new type of ELM behavior has been observed that avoids high instantaneous heat outflux. The compact, high-field plasmas obtained have enabled divertor studies to be performed at parallel power fluxes close to those predicted for ITER. Detached-divertor H-modes have been obtained by nitrogen puffing. Very high divertor neutral pressures are observed, which persist into the detached state. Highlights of these and other recent experimental results are presented. (author). 22 refs, 8 figs

Part of:
Fusion energy 1996. V. 1. Proceedings of the 16. international conference

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
IAEA.
Imprint Place
Vienna (Austria)
ISBN
92-0-100797-3
Imprint Title
Fusion energy 1996. V. 1. Proceedings of the 16. international conference
Imprint Pagination
931 p.
Series
Proceedings series.
Journal Page Range
p. 155-165.
ISSN
0074-1884

Conference

Title
16. international conference on fusion energy.
Dates
7-11 Oct 1996.
Place
Montreal (Canada).

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract DE-AC02-78ET51013
Secondary number(s)
IAEA-CN--64/O2-3.