Published May 1992 | Version v1
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Status and plans for TFTR

  • 1. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
  • 2. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
  • 3. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge (United States)
  • 4. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
  • 5. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison (United States)
  • 6. Univ. of California, Irvine (United States)
  • 7. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
  • 8. Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
  • 9. Canadian Fusion Fuels Technology Project, Toronto (Canada)

Description

Recent research on TFTR has emphasized optimization of performance in deuterium plasmas, transport studies and studies of energetic ion and fusion product physics in preparation for the D-T experiments that will commence in July of 1993. TFTR has achieved full hardware design parameters, and the best TFTR discharges in deuterium are projected to QDT of 0.3 to 0.5. The physics phenomena that will be studied during the D-T phase will include: tritium particle confinement and fueling, ICRF heating with tritium, species scaling with tritium, collective alpha-particle instabilities, alpha heating of the plasma and helium ash buildup. It is important for the fusion program that these physics issues be addressed to identify regimes of benign alpha behavior, and to develop techniques to actively stabilize or control instabilities driven by collective alpha effects

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
American Nuclear Society, Inc.
Imprint Place
La Grange Park, IL (United States)
Imprint Title
Tenth topical meeting on the technology of fusion energy: Proceedings
Imprint Pagination
470 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 1324-1331.

Conference

Title
10. topical meeting on technology of fusion energy.
Dates
7-12 Jun 1992.
Place
Boston, MA (United States).